Tram Loop

This Rock Ptarmigan was in the woods across from the teardrop parking lot.

The fall colors are going off right now.

...FIRST SNOWFALL OF THE WINTER LIKELY AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS  OF SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA TONIGHT...  COLDER AIR MOVING SOUTHWARD ACROSS WESTERN ALASKA TODAY WILL GRADUALLY FILTER INTO SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA LATE TONIGHT INTO  TUESDAY. MEANWHILE...A STORM SYSTEM OVER THE NORTHERN GULF  WILL MOVE INLAND ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA TONIGHT PRODUCING WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION. AS THE COLD AIR ARRIVES RAIN WILL  MIX WITH AND THEN CHANGE TO SNOW ALONG THE MOUNTAINS OF  SOUTHCENTRAL. LOCATIONS WITH THE MOST LIKELIHOOD OF SEEING  SNOW INCLUDE THE UPPER HILLSIDE OF ANCHORAGE...HATCHER'S PASS...HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE GLENN HIGHWAY AROUND EUREKA...THE NORTHERN SUSITNA VALLEY...AND ALONG THE DENALI HIGHWAY. THE SNOW  WILL BE VERY WET AND GROUND TEMPERATURES ARE VERY WARM...SO ACCUMULATION ACROSS THESE AREAS IS EXPECTED TO GENERALLY BE LIGHT.   LOWER ELEVATIONS...INCLUDING ANCHORAGE AND THE MATANUSKA VALLEY  WILL REMAIN PRIMARILY RAIN. HOWEVER...IF THE PRECIPITATION IS  HEAVY ENOUGH THERE MAY BE SNOWFLAKES MIXED IN WITH THE RAIN DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.