{"id":4969,"date":"2018-05-12T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2018-05-12T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T21:31:12","slug":"looking-for-elves-icy-strait-point-alaska-05-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4969","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Elves \u2013 Icy Strait Point, Alaska \u2013 [05\/12\/2018]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"But I thought I saw one! An Elf! I was sure this time
\n~ Red Riding Hood<\/em><\/p>\n

There is not much to Icy Strait Point. It\u2019s even smaller than Skagway (and trust me, that\u2019s saying something) \u2013 the only touristy things it has to its name are a few local shops, a visitors center and a zipline from the top of the mountain (that last one has somehow always felt out of place). And that\u2019s it. Tiny tiny place.<\/p>\n

But despite that \u2013 or perhaps because of it \u2013 this is one of my favourite places on the Alaska run. Because what Icy Strait does<\/em> have, is peace. And forest. This place\u2026I don\u2019t know if the forest here is truly old growth, but it feels<\/em> old. It feels\u2026set apart. Even in the areas where it hugs close to the road. It feels as though the barrier is thin here, as though if you stepped off the trails in the right place and wandered off under the trees you would find yourself someplace else. Someplace\u2026more.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s perhaps a little hard to explain.<\/p>\n

But as I sat on a trunk of a huge tree scribbling in my notebook, I found myself struck with the overwhelming urge to stand barefoot on the loamy ground and turn my face up to the perpetual mist \u2013 a human element rod\u2026.take it away Lady, take it all<\/em> away.<\/p>\n

As I said, hard to explain.<\/p>\n

By the time we ambled back to the ship, our clothes smelled like campfire smoke (they keep a perpetually burning campfire by the seaside trail, usually with woodchips that you can add to the flames to make a wish), and fresh woods air \u2013 and I had even accomplished my goal of finally<\/em> getting a decent pair of new gloves (gloves, are a necessity in Alaska, and please don\u2019t try to sell me \u2018texting gloves\u2019 if I need to message someone I can take five seconds to take my glove off)\u2026<\/p>\n

Sometimes it\u2019s the quiet days that do you the most good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But I thought I saw one! An Elf! I was sure this time ~ Red Riding Hood There is not much to Icy Strait Point. It\u2019s even smaller than Skagway (and trust me, that\u2019s saying something) \u2013 the only touristy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-steam-heat-2018"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-1i9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}