Summer 2015 plans

I have the summer off. Three months from early May to early August. So far, apart from visiting family in the midwest, I have done nothing with the first half of my vacation. I need to change that. Here are some things I should try to do.

Hiking

Numbers below refer to place in 50 Hikes Around Anchorage and 55 Ways to the Wilderness in Southcentral Alaska, respectively.

• Bird Ridge (7; 23)
• Dew Mound / Dew Lake (42; n/a)
• Eklutna Lakeside Trail (48; n/a)
• Flattop (15; 28)
• Hatcher Pass
• Mt. Alyeska (1; n/a)
• Mt. Baldy (36; n/a)
• Near Point (23; 32)
• Rendezvous Peak (33; 33)
• South Fork Falls (35; n/a)
• The Perch (n/a; 35)
• Turnagain Arm Trail (13; 27)

Random things that shouldn't have to take me an entire summer to accomplish, but do

• Finish OCRing that damn book
• Go through my list of progressive rock albums to listen to
• Go through metal-reviews and metalobserver backlog
• Start tracking finances in homebank

Gaming

• Install and try Dolphin

Learning

• Work through Rosenberg's KSH book
• Watch Kelby photography tutorials
• Start reading on economics (kind of)

Travel

• Drive on all the highways I've never been on yet:
  • Denali Highway (Cantwell to Paxson)
  • Tok Cutoff (Glennallen to Tok)
  • "Top of the World Highway" (Tok north to Chicken and Eagle along the Canadian border)
  • Alaska Highway south from Delta Junction down to Tok and thence the Canadian border
  • Fairbanks to Circle (could be a rough road)
  • Road to McCarthy
• Visit Valdez during the salmon run

Side quests

• Watch sumo and maybe read a book about it