Rainbow Creek

Last month we planned a trip on one pf the few sunny days in June to drive down to hike one of our favorite trails with our friend Stef - Byron Glacier. Just a few miles onto the Seward Highway, our plans changed, as the highway traffic was backed up for a bad car accident. Thankfully Andrew saw a sign for the Rainbow Creek and Turnagain Pass trail heads, so we turned in there and took a short hike on this trail we had never hiked before.

It was a nice, shady hike with a few good view spots. We only hiked a few miles in since the trail's scenery wasn't very varied. On the way down we heard more sirens after the accident had already cleared up. When we got back to the car and checked our phones on the drive back we discovered that a hiker had been mauled by a bear a few miles away from us on the Bird Ridge Run!

It was nice to get out, but scary learning how close we were to that tragedy.

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