Showy Jacob's Ladder + Holiday Rescued

Showy Jacob's Ladder along the Glenn Highway

Today we had two goals; one was to find a way to charge my camera batteries. I pulled a brain-dead maneuver and forgot to charge my camera backup batteries before we left Anchor-town. Our second goal of the day was to reach Nabesna.

Nabesna is an old mining village founded by the Nabesna Mining company sometime before 1909. It is located on the north side of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The mine closed in 1947, and the census from 2010 shows only five residents.

The drive from Lake Louise to Glennallen afforded us sweet views of the wildflowers along the roadside; Showy Jacob's Ladder and Lupine. Happy spots of purple that would brighten your day. In addition, Mt. Drum was in view directly in our path to Glennallen. When they first forged the Glenn Highway east, they surely used Mt. Drum as a direction marker.

A stop at the Glennallen True Value Hardware store, and the assistance from the nice True Value employee and the trip was saved. They had a 120-volt AC inverter to charge my camera batteries using the (cigarette) plugs in the cab of Elvira. The holiday was back on track. We made another pit stop for petro in the camper rig, and a stop in the pouring rain at the IGA (the local grocery store) for water, and we were off down the road to find a dryer place to have lunch.

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