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Most of the pass is inside the Hatcher Pass East Special Management Area, which encompasses 75,000 acres (30,000 ha) of wilderness. [24] Summit Lake State Recreation Site is a small alpine park with a shallow cirque lake and excellent views. The park is a favorite launch site for paragliders. [25] An Arctic ground squirrel at Hatcher Pass
It is bridged by Fishook Road in Hatcher Pass, Edgerton Parks Road, Welch Road, George Parks Highway, Sushanna Road, and Schrock Road. It flooded in 1972 and again in August 2006, and September 2012 reaching a volume of over 4,500 cubic feet per second (130 m 3 /s), causing minor damage to homes and infrastructure.
The Independence Mines, now Independence Mine State Historic Park, is the site of a former gold mining operation in the Talkeetna Mountains, across Hatcher Pass from Palmer, Alaska. The area's mining history dates to at least 1897, when active claims were reported in the vicinity of Fishook Creek.
Hatcher's Mango Hill, 1908 Hypoluxo Road, opens every day from noon to 4 p.m., weather and supply permitting. The mangoes sell for $4 a pound, and updates are posted on the farm's Facebook page ...
The Willow Creek mining district, also known as the Independence Mine/Hatcher Pass district, is a gold-mining area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Underground hard-rock mining of gold from quartz veins accounts for most of the mineral wealth extracted from the Hatcher Pass area. The first mining efforts were placer mining of stream gravels, and ...
The NFL playoffs are nearly in sight and the heat is on for some teams still in the fight to make the postseason.. Week 15 saw the number of teams that have qualified for the playoffs increase to ...
On the Road with the Archangel was published four years after the release of Buechner’s twelfth novel, The Son of Laughter (1993). In the intervening years the author published a single collection of essays, reflections, and poetry, titled The Longing for Home: recollections and reflections (1996).
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump has tapped Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who presented him with a plan to end the war in Ukraine, to serve as a special envoy for the conflict, the ...