re: #102 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I’ve been there. Pretty amazing place. Quite beautiful. There are two towering mountains (Mt. Juneau and Mt. Roberts) right behind the town, riddled with old gold mines. You can walk from the waterfront up into the valley between the mountains and be in the forest in about 20 minutes.

All the public trash cans in the city have special hatches to keep bears from opening them. On city streets, in the state capital.

Somewhere up those forest trails, there is an open mine shaft entrance (with locked grating so you can’t wander in). I was there in summer, and there was always a very cold wind blowing out of that shaft. One day I was talking with a local and mentioned that. He laughed and said, yeah, in the winter it’s the same temperature and it feels like a warm breeze.