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I do, and plan on spending my vacation time checking various parts out over the next few years. Summer and winter....It's just so big with a lot of factors to consider.
Yea, that's cold...scary quick killer cold for sure.
I like the rain forest, grew up on the south end of it in WA but I want more of a winter so I'm pretty sure I'm at least headed for the southern coast or north.
And I live at the very northern fringe of the rain forest. I have a hemlock or two on my little plot of land in south Anchorage. There are but a handful of hemlocks farther north. The gnarly mountain hemlocks that are 6 feet high and hundreds of years old don't count.
More of a winter, but not freezing ass cold would be the lower Kenai Peninsula, maybe Seldovia. It's a small town with no road access. Check it out. One family over there has been rather prolific in writing and you might check out their adventures.
My cabin getaway is in the boreal forest about 2 1/2 hours north of town. Once upon a time the area was considered remote, but other than being off the grid, there's nothing remote about it. Hell, you can get a latte if you wanna drive 30 minutes. And it gets fairly chilly there in winter, moreso than Anchorage. And there's usually a pretty good snow pack. You can definitely get that remote feeling there without being remote. Plus, there's a new cell tower going in about 10 miles away to make communication easier with the outside world. I'm not fond of that development.