Fabulous warm sunny Alaska weekends are few and far between. They are to be experienced to the max (whatever one's max might be). And this weekend was certainly fab...
Today, Peter's daughter Alix did Crow Pass, a tough 26 mile backcountry Alaska hike that includes mountains, bears and a big river crossing. She just got home - very stiff and with some big blisters but still walking.
Yesterday was the twelfth annual Run for Women. It's a five mile course and just about every living breathing, even psuedo mobile, woman in Anchorage participates. It's a fund raiser for breast cancer research. The race is a celebration of those who have survived breast cancer and a memorial for those who have not.
Once you get to be my age, you realize breast cancer seems to be an epidemic. These days, a bald woman wearing a baseball cap is a very common sight.
Anyhoo, if I'm able, I always do the race - I walk instead of run. This year, I walked with a friend who set a brisk pace. It was a bit tough, but I made it and had a great time. Afterwards, we headed off to the GCI post race bbq - nothing like beer and hamburgers on a hot sunny deck at 10:30 AM.
 Here's Peter and me at mile 2.5.
Because the women are all doing the race, the men do all the volunteering. Peter worked the GCI water table at mile 2.5.
8:49:35 PM 
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Here's the very cute port-a-potty I used after the race.
