Traversing a muskeg in Southeast Alaska is a unique experience.  Offering open expanses, they grant the eye some relief in a part of the world where thick conifer forests and steep mountains often limit long views. They are prehistoric looking yet no older than the retreat of the ice about 10,000 years ago. They hold a distinct assemblage of plants that have adapted to the inhospitable home that the muskeg provides. Muskegs are one of my favorite places to be and in them are found some of my favorite plants including bog Labrador tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum).