Tangle Lakes, Paxson: Picked bulk blueberries. Plenty to be had both ripe and unripe. Crowberries are ready but unripe in big areas. Alpine bearberries are perfect, and pretty tasty for bearberries. Lowbush cran are red and unripe. Bearberries (kinnikinnick) unripe, some turning red. Lots of soapberries are ready in sunny spots. People eating plenty of edible mushrooms.
July 27
Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge, Wasilla: Picked lots o’ perfect black currants and perfect nagoonberries.
July 12
Swamp land, Big Lake: Lots of (green) bog and lowbush cranberries, some starting to redden. Crowberries are tart but pickable. Most cloudberries are half ripe. Blueberries have some green some ripe.
July 11
Marsh land, Big Lake: Lots of bog cranberries this year! Bright green and big. Some blueberries ready, lots still green. Berries seem big/juicy this year.
June 4
Marsh land, Big Lake: Cloudberries, blueberries, and bog cranberries all flowering.
May 17
Swamp land, Big Lake: Fiddlehead ferns are ready. Maybe some past-due, but still good ones to pick.
May 26
Marsh land, Big Lake: Beautiful white bogbean flowers blooming at lakeside. Cloudberry has white blooms. Quite a few this year.
July 27
Marsh land, Big Lake: Many ripe timberberries by the lake. Some bog blueberries, very ripe. A few cloudberries. Picked an okay amount of blue and a little bit of cloud. Saw half ripe highbush cranberry.
July 26
Hatcher Pass, Fishhook: Lowbush cranberries at Summit Lake are 1/2 to 2/3 ripe. Down by Little Susitna River picked an okay amount of red currants. Picked a good amount of watermelon berries. Highbush cranberries are half green half red.
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