Little Susitna River, Houston: Picked lowbush cranberries, basically ready to pick but could ripen more. They are having a great year, they’re huge everywhere.
September 9
Woods, Ester: Cranberry picked, both lowbush and highbush, both types nice. Everything is quite saturated from rain. Also found good crowberries and strawberry spinach. Red bearberries are past (I found many this time in Sept. before.)
September 6
Hatcher Pass, Willow and Fishhook: Picked berries for last several days in different alpine and subalpine areas. Blueberries of all 3 kinds ready now and some getting really tasty. (In some spots earlier the early blues were ripe while the dwarf blues were completely green.) Crowberries perfect. Alpine highbush cranberry patches red and crispy.
September 22
Fairbanks: First freeze.
September 13
North Shore, Big Lake: Picked many bog cranberries, many perfect ripeness, others almost ready. Also got some lowbush cranberries.
September 4
Hatcher Pass, Fishhook: Picked blueberries and crowberries in Independence Mine area.
September 9
Fairbanks: First freeze.
September 28
Anchorage: Picked lots of crabapples. Not sure if urban trees are Alaska species or not.
September 3
Fairbanks: First freeze.
September 30
Girdwood: Blueberries are still good, people picking.
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