Finally got up to Hatcher's Pass to get some blueberries. I am glad that we waited too because it was the most beautiful day I've had yet in Alaska - sunny and warm, clear blue skies. There were many many cars lined along Archangel Valley Road and people on the surrounding slopes. One group that had just come down as we were going up told us that they did not get any. We did not let that discourage us and we found some bushes full of berries across the creek in a pretty magical area overgrown with moss, lichen, and other low growing alpine/tundra type plants. There are at least three species of Vaccinium up there: V. ovalifolium (Oval Leaf Blueberry), V. alaskaense (Alaskan), and V. uliginosum (Bog Blueberry)
Crowberry - Empetrum nigrum. Has an edible berry with lots of water but only ok to bland tasting, good for a thirst quench (I was also drinking out of the stream) but nothing like the Blueberry flavor
(photo: blueberries in a bowl)
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