Skip Larsen 1966 Travelogue

Dateline: October 2, 2024.

    The photos of South-Central Alaska below were shot on Kodachrome slide film by Skip Larsen during a 6-week trip through the Yukon Territory and Alaska in 1966 - see the link above for more information about that trip and many more photos from it.

    We have posted 18 of the 35 photos in this part of the collection. It has taken some extra work to assemble this page, as the slides were out of order and many were dated incorrectly. The creator of the page, Murray Lundberg, drove these highways countless times while driving tour bus starting in 1990, though, and was able to make sense of the route.

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The first photo is an impressive bridge on the Alaska Railroad, perhaps the Hurricane Gulch Bridge, though it is quite a hike from the highway.

This photo appeared to show the family watching wildlife of some sort along the highway.

There were five photos shot at the location seen above - they were in Broad Pass, finally seeing Mount McKinley in the sunshine!

Here is a cropped and darkened version of the photo above.

A stop was made at the Native village of Eklutna to visit the Russian Orthodox cemetery and chapel.

This and the next two photos show the Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, also known as the Eklutna Chapel, at Eklutna. About 16 by 26 feet in size, it was built of hewn spruce logs in about 1894.

This is probably one of the homes destroyed by the earthquake two years before, on Good Friday, March 27, 1964.

This Native dance group appears to have been performing at a gift shop in Anchorage.

This and the next two photos show the Portage Glacier.

The Matanuska Glacier along the Glenn Highway.

A closer look at the Matanuska Glacier .

The Matanuska River along the Glenn Highway.

The Copper River along the Tok Cutoff.