360 degree view of the area. Linda is looking north towards the lodge, and the mountains are behind her.

The view of Skilak Lake from the road as we drove to the pickup spot.

The Kenai Backcountry Lodge is on the far side of Skilak Lake, surrounded by 1 million acres of wilderness. The only way to access the Lodge is by boat.

A view of the Lodge area from a small hill nearby.

A view of our cabin, Borealis, from the beach at sunset.

Reading by sunlight at 11:30 PM

Sunset view from our cabin window.

A map of the Skilak area and our hike.

The next morning we went on a hike up into the mountains behind the Lodge. After two miles we were at 2500 feet and on the alpine tundra, with lots of flowers.

Lupine overlooking Skilak Lake

Usually all the guest have to hike together, but fortunately they let us go off by ourselves so we could cover more territory.

Running down the snowfield, getting ready to slide!

Yeehaw!

We stumbled on a caribou graveyard on our hike. There were about 20 skeletons, probably killed by avalanche. The lodge crew was very interested to hear about our find so they could go see it themselves. We thought about taking antlers, but then though

Hiking along the tundra. There is no trail, you go wherever you want to.

It was raining when we left on our second morning, but we did get a nice rainbow.