On Wednesday I got to go on a work related trip to the Alaska Peninsula. We left Trident Basin at dawn and flew across the Shelikof Strait to Kukak Bay - the land of volcanoes and glaciers. Molly and I were helping a lodge owner expand their lodge. Their lodge is built partially on top of a large Alutiiq village. People lived here until the late 19th century and there was even a Russian Orthodox Church at one end of the village. So the lodge owner wants our help in defining the site boundaries and showing them what is what and where so that they can expand without damaging the old village. I actually once visited the village and lodge in the distant past to do the same thing when they last expanded in 2006.
So we spent the day digging test pits and finding all the old house pits. We even found the old excavation trenches from when archaeologists did some excavations here in the 1950's and early 1960's. The highlight of my trip was when I walked down to the beach and ran into a bear walking by on the beach. The trail down to the beach even had a sign on it that said 'bear crossing'. I should have paid attention!
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