HOPE — For those visiting Hope, a small community located southeast of Anchorage on the edge of Turnagain Arm, recent warm and dry weather provided ideal conditions for fishing, hiking and camping.
On a weekend in July, butterflies fluttered around alpine wildflowers near Hope as people hiked past patches of red and yellow western columbine and brightly colored dwarf fireweed.
Along the Palmer Creek Lakes trail, day hikers cooled off in the midsummer heat by jumping into frigid emerald lakes at the base of mountain slopes. Ellie Hands, visiting from Minnesota, joined friend Penelope Spencer for a run across a patchy snow slope and down into a clear alpine lake, their laughs echoing across the water.
As the sun sank behind tundra-covered mounds, a bald eagle scoured the lakes for fish, flying just above tents as people slept.
Here are photos from a summer weekend spent around Hope.
Ellie Hands and Penelope Spencer run across a snowy slope before jumping into the alpine lake below near Hope on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
People clean a salmon they caught in Resurrection Creek in Hope on Saturday, July 17, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
People fish along Resurrection Creek, on the edge of Turnagain Arm, in Hope on Saturday, July 17, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
Flies circle around a cluster of cow parsnip growing on the side of Palmer Creek Road near Hope on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
A man fishes in Resurrection Creek in Hope on Saturday, July 17, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
People hike between lakes at the end of the Palmer Creek Lakes trail near Hope on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
From left, Sayward, Jerica, Avery and Chris Fehrman hike along the Palmer Creek Lakes trail near Hope on Saturday, July 17, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
Dwarf fireweed petals, harvested near Hope, are pressed into pages of a book on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
Josie Ausloos hikes along the Palmer Creek Lakes trail near Hope on Saturday, July 17, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
A bald eagle flies past tents set up at the base of a mountain near Hope on Saturday, July 17, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
The moon rises above mountains across Turnagain Arm, photographed from Girdwood on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (Emily Mesner / ADN)
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