Serenity Falls Hut
The place
Serenity Falls Hut in the Municipality of Anchorage, Girdwood/Chugach State Park area (Kenai Peninsula Chugach Mountains, Alaska, United States), at a true altitude of ~50 m (the listed 0 m is erroneous), on the south flank of the Chugach front above Turnagain Arm. Part of the continuous Alaska Chugach cluster (batches 260-398). A public-use cabin in Alaska State Parks' Chugach SP (Chugach State Park, 2000 km², the 3rd largest state park in the USA, established 1970 + Girdwood, population 2500, home to the Alyeska ski resort + Turnagain Arm, a 74 km tidal inlet with a 12 m tide, the 2nd largest tide in the world + Portage Glacier + the iconic heritage of the Alaska Purchase, March 30 1867, Andrew Johnson, Seward's Folly, $7.2M / $4.74M to Russia, 2 cents an acre, iconic + the Klondike Gold Rush 1896-1899, 100,000 stampeders via the Chilkoot/White Pass + the Alaska Highway, 1942, WWII, 2288 km AK-YT-BC-AB, built in 8 months during WWII + the iconic heritage of Alaska becoming the 49th state, January 3 1959, Eisenhower + the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, 1977, 1287 km Prudhoe Bay-Valdez, $8 billion + the Exxon Valdez, March 24 1989, a spill of 42 million liters into Prince William Sound, an iconic environmental disaster + the heritage of the Alaska earthquake, March 27 1964, Good Friday, M 9.2, the 2nd strongest ever recorded, tsunami, 143 dead).
The setting
Anchorage, Girdwood/Chugach SP area, Kenai Peninsula Chugach Mountains, Alaska, USA, listed altitude 0 m erroneous, actual ~50 m, S flank of the Chugach above Turnagain Arm, continuous cluster batches 260-398, public-use cabin in Alaska SP + Chugach SP 2000 km², 3rd largest US state park, established 1970 + Girdwood, population 2500, home to the Alyeska ski resort + Turnagain Arm, 74 km, 12 m tide, 2nd largest in the world + Portage Glacier, Alaska Purchase March 30 1867, Johnson, Seward's Folly, $7.2M / $4.74M to Russia, 2 cents an acre + Klondike 1896-1899, 100,000 stampeders via the Chilkoot/White Pass + Alaska Highway 1942, 2288 km AK-YT-BC-AB, built in 8 months + became the 49th state January 3 1959, Eisenhower + TAPS 1977, 1287 km Prudhoe-Valdez, $8 billion + Exxon Valdez March 24 1989, 42 million liters into Prince William Sound, iconic + earthquake March 27 1964, Good Friday, M 9.2, 2nd strongest in the world, tsunami, 143 dead.
