Wild Flowers on "RCA" hill

Friday was a beautiful day in Cantwell! I decided to take the kids out to find some wild flowers as I've been told it is nearing the end of the blooming season. As we were heading out the door a friend of Connor called and asked him to play, so Samantha and I dropped him off on our way up "RCA" hill. (The locals call it that because of the radio towers at the top, although it's now owned by AT&T.)

We drove all the way to the top, which is only about 2 miles up from old Cantwell. We played fetch with Cinder, ran a couple races on the road, and picked some pretty wildflowers. Samantha wondered why the ground was so "squishy", so I told her a little about tundra. Tundra is a type of ground where tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The vegetation is mostly small shrubs, grasses, mosses and lichens.

While we were enjoying nature, Rob was having a meeting with a man in town. When Rob mentioned where we had gone, the man told him that a former pastor's son shot about the fourth biggest bear in the interior of Alaska on the backside of that hill. Even though I didn't have this specific piece of information, we knew to stay close to the truck and be ever vigilant. You can see from the pictures that the top of the hill was open and I decided I could see things from a pretty long distance away if any wildlife showed
up... :)



Samantha took this picture of Cinder and I.