Into the the wild (well 7.5miles in)

We booked a forest service cabin at Eagle glacier 30 miles from Juneau, the cabin was at the end of a 7.5 mile long trail. We had been told that hitching in Alaska was not easy but we had a new found confidence given our extensive training on San Juan island.  After around 20 mins a guy in a jeep gave us a lift, he had moved from Los Angeles to get away from people and said he got his job at the hospital by accident. When going to the hospital to register, the day he arrived on Juneau, he was meet by a man at the desk who said he was currently too drunk to do his job, the hospital employee pleaded with him to cover the responsibility of patient suicide watch that evening - after much convincing he agreed and got a job at the hospital as a result. 

Our vain attempt to do something "Wild" is nothing on this guy, check out this http://www.dickproenneke.com/alone_in_the_wilderness.html it's amazing and was recommended to us by a nice chap called Dave we met at the driftwood hotel in Juneau.

Hitching to the trail head, Fi would lure them in and then I would jump out of the bushes once they had stopped

Skunk cabbage (the thing on the left) not to be confused with the stink produced by the one on the right

A load of salmon, these one were humpies or pink salmon. They were so big that we thought the noise they made was bears hunting them rather just them splashing about 

porcupine - we also saw a black bear and cub on this trail

They move pretty fast

Man with wearable mosquito net that we met on the trail (they were the only people we met all day and had been in the cabin the day before us)

pretty swamp/lake

The trail was quite varied and had a lot of board walk

Bear spray practice

The trail had lots of marshy bits

nearly there

The cabin in all its glory

Manly wood chopping for the wood stove

Chopping in the twilight is not advisable

Porcupine poop - he had been making the most of the wood store in the winter

The glacial lake in fronnt of the cabin. We saw a large adult beaver swim across here at night, I had put too much wood on the stove (no we are in america resources no longer seem finite) and went to cool off on the porch in my pants (are you enjoying the mental imagery?) and there it was happily swimming along.

We started the fire with someone's left over rabbit targets

A selection of cool looking fungus from the trail.