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Show Elmer Johnsons enjoy Alaskan trip Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson John-son recently returned from a trip to Alaska. They accompanied LaVard and Emily Rus of Orem, Utah on a month's trip. They left the latter part of August, traveled through Idaho to Yellowstone National Park. They spent two days there seeing all the points of interest. in-terest. They went to Glacier National Park, visitingmany galciers and beautiful water -falls. From there they drove to Alberta, Canada and on the Alaska 251 highway into the Yukon to Whitehorse, the cap-itol cap-itol of the Yukon. Then on up to Dawson City. At this time the city of Dawson was celebrating its 7 5th birthday. Dawson was where gold was first discovered discov-ered in the Yukon. The took a ferry across the Yukon River, then went over the mountain to Tok, Alaska and on down to the Delta Junction. Here, they visited the pipeline station. They also saw the big salmon sal-mon go up the river to spawn. From there they traveled travel-ed to the North Pole where they spent some time visiting visit-ing Santa Clause's home and then on to Fairbanks, where they were only a short distance dis-tance from the Artie Circle. The only way to get there is by plane, which they didn't want to do. They traveled to Mount McKinley National Park. They were about 150 miles from the mountains and because it was overcast, over-cast, they were unable to see it. There is only a 40 chance that it can be seen, anytime. They saw many wild animals, including brown and grizzly bears and moose, at this stop. From Mt. McKinley they went to Anchorage and spent a day at Kenta Peninsula where they were lucky enough to see many white whale that were following a school of salmon. They also saw a blue whale. They loaded the cam per on the train at Portage. The only way through to Whittier is through a mountain tunnel, tun-nel, which is a 35 minute drive. Here they took the ferry over to Valdez, the terminal ter-minal of the Alaska pipeline. They spent much time sight -seeing, going to Haines to catch the ferry to Amice Rupert. They were 32 hours on the water. Then inland to Prince George where they saw the biggest paper mills in the world. Then on the Jasper National Park, where they saw many wild animals including in-cluding black bear, brown bear, deer mountain goats, moose and an elk with seven points. They were within 30 feet of a big brown giz-zly, giz-zly, which was a great thrill, as well as frightening. frighten-ing. They visited Radium Hot Springs spending one night close by. The next day they went to Eureka, Montana down to Missoula, through Idaho, where they were harvesting har-vesting the potatoes, back to Orem and home. It was a beautiful trip, said Margie, being the late summer, the trees and mountians were changing color, and it was beautiful to see. On the way back they saw, and the boat touched, the second largest glacier in the world. "It was breath-taking," she said. About the prices inAlaska well, coffee was $3.49 a cup, New York steak, $22.00, gas, $1.34 a gallon. Needless Need-less to say, they didn't buy coffee or steak. However, she said, the workers there, where prices were so high made between $25.00 and $30.00 an hour. They came home Septem-ber Septem-ber 30th. |