Alaska Weather

Here's a bit more specific information re: the weather outlook where and when we're headed:

Anchorage
Average high: 63 degrees
Average low: 48 degrees
Solstice sunlight: 19.5 hours
Rain likely

Denali Area
Average high: 64 degrees
Average low: 40 degeres
It could be hot; it could be snowing; it probably will be raining at least some of the time.

Alaska Reading List

Here are a few Alaska-themed books to help you get into the traveling spirit.

Nonfiction:
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge by Jill A. Fredston
Tundra Teacher: A Memoir by John Foley
The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians by Brian Garfield
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat (also a film)

Fiction:
Lost Angel by Mike Doogan
Highliners: The Classic Novel about the Commercial Fishermen of Alaska by William McCloskey
Alaska by James Michener

These authors were recommended for Alaska-mystery-beach reads:
Sue Henry
Kathryn Harrison
Dana Stabenow

Anyone have other recommendations?

Here's one source on good summer reading: NPR/Talk of the Nation's Summer Reading List.

Also, I found something fun: Literature Map. Warning: it's addictive.