HouseMaster Inspection in morning & Hiking to a Ghost Town in evening

(City of Anchorage in background.) These two fine HouseMaster inspectors, Mark Crawford www.anchorage.housemaster.com and Hal Kunnen www.phoenix.housemaster.com, inspected together today and will again tomorrow. Their collective expertise represents geographic north meeting geographic south and climatic cold meeting climatic hot!

Drove nearly an hour north of Anchorage to Hatcher Pass and Independence Mine State Park.


Mark & Karen Crawford would rate this a HouseMaster-Anchorage "poor/defective".
While George kept the Crawford kids, Josie & Zach, tickled.


This was a friendly hoary marmot or as Zach called it, a "hairy marmot".

The "bridge to nowhere" . . . emblematic - the day after Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted.



Back at home playing in the back yard at 10:30pm while the fresh-caught-yesterday halibut and quill-back rock fish are being cooked in onions and butter on the grill. This fish was the best fish Wendy had ever tasted, bar none.


Well, now it's midnight and the kids are finally going to bed. Hey, it's Alaska in the summertime!