Kings and Corn

Sometimes there are opportunities that appear out of nowhere.  A few weeks back I was on a bike trip with my ski team on the California coast and I got a phone call asking if I would have the dates free to be able to come up to Alaska and hit up the Kings and Corn at the Tordrillo Lodge with Tommy Moe and Daron Rahlves.  Suffice it to say that my calendar was quickly cleared and we made it happen!

This blog is just to share a few pictures from that 5 days we spent doing nothing but trying to find the nicest  corn snow left in Alaska and the biggest King Salmon that were still running.

The Lodge is about a half an hour float plane ride out of Anchorage

A warm greeting from the staff that chills out there for months at a time.

Our command post for 5 days

Our transportation, unbelievable to have the heli pad right outside the front door

Still a lot of snow up high in AK in July, even though this was a thin snow year

Chilling out on the glacier

Heli drop at the Talachulitna River, getting the raft blown up for a float

King a ling, oh yeah 

Daron, stoked!

Tommy showing off a pretty little Rainbow

This shot was taken at 12:30am , gives a good perspective on the light situation, the sun would go down for about 3 hours but it never got completely dark. Kinda missed seeing the stars.

One of my favorite shots, Tom Day leaning out of the heli over this little pool on the glacier, the white bottom made the water the coolest aqua blue color that I have ever seen.

That is all the evidence that I have for now but it was a great week.  We were filming all the action for a ski movie so hopefully they can capture the epicness of what they have going up there in AK!