Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Nov. 17-19, 2018 The last few days the East Coast got slammed with an early season snowstorm. It appears that we along the Gulf Coast of Alaska may have yet another mild early winter. The last decade or so that’s been the case whenever the East Coast gets hit hard this time of year. We have no snow on the ground in Seward itself. There is snow on the mountains, and the Harding Icefield on the Kenai Mountains is probably getting quite a bit. As low-pressure systems in the Gulf of Alaska move counter-clockwise along our coast, we get rain at lower elevations which turns to snow in the mountains as that warm air rises. A 100 years ago Kent and Rockie on Fox Island had quite a bit of snow with cold temperatures and fierce north winds. Let’s go back to 1918. The two adventurers have been packed and ready to go to Seward since Nov. 14 th , just waiting for an opening in the weathe