Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So close. Walking that ridge with a foot of snow burying the rocks was challenging, though I’m not sure I’d have felt less fear if I could see them. Switchbacked down once I could see a way through the rocks. Did not trust the snow on the steep slope. Next year. 160
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Evening light is fading fast. Long before DST ends, usable evening light is already done. Headlamp season is here! 1110
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So. My cat cheeks his medicine. He fights me giving him the pills. When that doesn’t work, he holds it in his mouth until I let him go. Then he SPITS IT OUT right in front of me. So we try again until he either swallows it or spits it out when I’m not looking. 220
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With each hike in the Chugach the terrain becomes more familiar, mountains become more individualized. Pics help me learn. My neighbor told me today that I seem really good at knowing which mountain is which. I chuckled, because it takes a ton of repetition for me to feel oriented anywhere. 270
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026mcsweeneys.netWe Need to Save the Men“Nothing we’ve given men so far—more power, more money, complete bodily autonomy, apps that offer on-demand dates, fancy iPhones, innumerable prestige TV sho... 010
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So a friend and I just watched The Graduate after she learned I’d never seen before and it’s . . . every bit as disturbing as I imagined it would be. And then some. 020
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Brisk up in the mountains today and too much wind to summit. Catching the last days of fall hiking always fun. The pass was beautiful. 1140
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Coming off Mt Baldy this evening, surrounded by a large group of people I’d mostly never met, I enjoyed seeing the familiar Sleeping Lady. Navigating has always been hard but with attention and exploration and more years here than anywhere else, I’m enjoying both orientation and deeper rootedness. 0141
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Lovely evening. The light and color and air this time of year are so crisp. Cottonwoods smell so sweet. 060
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My first training in medical work was how to triage—“sick or not sick?” It really was pretty black and white in the village. Could I manage it, or not? My kids subscribe to the bandaid philosophy. “Sometimes, mom, a kid needs a bandaid for comfort.” I had to pivot with my cat this evening. 120
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Beautiful cool fall day for a hike with friends. 21226
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My evening task is before me. Glad I planted so much that I’m still eating thinnings in September. 0130
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026SB 89 passed and my profession is now in state statute, less vulnerable to the whims of a small board. I’m grateful to all who worked on this—especially @lgtobin.bsky.social who sponsored this bill with her whole heart, from a place of such deep respect for one of the backbone professions in AK. 1130
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I see particular sprigs and branches start to turn yellow and the hillsides turning red. But so many leaves still green. Then I look out another window in this hazy evening light with cold rainy mist, and I see it. Fall is here. That tree over there, is a blur of gold tinged with disappearing green. 030
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I rarely find my way to the top this time of year. 0111
Reposted by Alaskan LisaDavid Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One of the interesting things about Lisbourne is that he will interact with history and/or make some social criticisms. Like this one about his nightmares as a child about Project Chariot, since he grew up at Point Hope. Or when he's criticized presence of alcohol. 3164
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As Americans, do we think consciously about how incredibly kind this good neighbor has been? 032
Reposted by Alaskan LisaAli @alaskaali.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sunset bluff adventures. #AlaskaSky This twin moose mama is so. over. it. 3307
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This show was so worth watching. That’s coming from someone who avoids TV. I think I watched some of it on my phone, even. 030
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One of the prettiest finds today. Sadly, I’ve forgotten the name. 280
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Pholiotas mean fall. This particular one is somewhat new to the guidebooks. 020
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The most interesting find today. Too wet to pick berries. So I learned some new mushrooms today. 021
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I was so excited for today’s hike. Ultimately the group turned around as it was too cold and windy to continue up as planned. But certainly hope to try again, so beautiful out there. 1130
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Got to the episode in The Crown where the London Fog kills people and I looked at my eldest and observed, “This show is really about calling us out on how long we’ve known these problems existed” and they gave me a Cheshire grin. We must not keep kicking the can down the road. 010
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Permafrost words related to wetlands, it seems—lovely thread. 001
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026RIP Wendell Berry. 8/5/34-8/31/26. poetrying.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/t... 010
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Fog is coming now but still a lovely day to be outside. 040
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026#botany folks: how old is this cottonwood growing in the blueberry patches? 051
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Thanks to the Bluesky folks in #Fairbanks and especially @arcticgoddess.bsky.social for a fun gathering and sending me to a state cabin for the first time (embarrassing to admit I’ve never stayed in one!) As a bonus I caught a glimpse of the lunar eclipse on the way out Chena River Road last night. 050
Reposted by Alaskan LisaRuss McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026BREAKING: Armed and masked agents of the U.S. government have invaded the sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation. 521300906
Reposted by Alaskan Lisathe moon report 🌗 @seachanger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026this is annoying of me to post, but i really was dead scared about this climate reality in like 1997. people are surprised that the earth's habitability could break down within a human lifespan but the science was mostly all there 30 years ago and available to anyone willing to reckon with it 441170
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Thinking of driving up from Anchorage for this, have room for one in the truck I bought from AV five years ago….message me if you’d like ride along. 150
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Appropriate photo after watching first episode of The Man in the High Castle. No, my eldest, I do not want to watch second episode. Why didn’t I take my their teacher’s advice and feed them more flowers and butterflies instead of dystopian literature? 120
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Watched Eternal Sunshine with my eldest and I feel like maybe I have seen it once before . . . Seriously, though, it makes me want to grab tightly every bittersweet memory and holdfast to it. 120
Reposted by Alaskan LisaAksaab @aksaab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026www.anchoragepolice.com/news/request...anchoragepolice.comREQUEST FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE: UNAUTHORIZED CREDIT CARD CHARGES — Anchorage Police DepartmentThe Anchorage Police Department is investigating a fraud ring that used stolen credit and debit card information to make unauthorized purchases at several unrelated retailers. If you notice a c... 001
Reposted by Alaskan LisaRick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Tanacross #Alaska #Dene #Language k’įį t’ą́ą’ xdít-tsiik "birch leaves turned yellow" k’įį t’ą́ą’ xdeltthox "birch leaves are brown" Wunenh Ch’et’ą̌ą’ Dit-tsiig "month when leaves turn yellow" i.e.September k'ah du' teddh tah natl’esnalgót "now it gets dark at night" naxúlsóx "it is frosty" 0357
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A gallon of blues and a couple meals of mushrooms. Lovely haul today in the mist. 1110
Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Harvest season is starting. Finally started thinning out my carrots. Raspberries filling the freezer. Currants are thriving. 050
