Ted Huntley operated Alyeska Air Service and to my knowledge he founded it.  I also knew Dr. Frazier.  Both men and Ted’s family were personal friends of our family when I was growing up.  I don’t remember Dr. Frazier being married. Knowing Ted’s profile as I do, I suspect he is the second person from the right in the photo.  When Ted wasn’t flying folks up to the Chugach Mountains he was a pilot for Alaska Airlines flying jets from Anchorage to Seattle.

Although I never got the chance to ski with Alyeska Air Service my brother and I did get to fly with Ted and his son Ben from Merrill Field to Girdwood one weekend.  It was in the Super Cub in the photo on the ALSAP web site.  It was probably around the 1968 – 1970 time frame and turned into a scouting mission to check out landing sites around Girdwood.  First we sort of bounced landed on Raven Glacier.  The wind had been blowing and there were ripples of windblown snow, probably 12 to 18 inches high, that we landed perpendicular to so we could land into the wind.  If my memory serves me it seemed we landed tail wheel first in order to drag it to shorted our landing distance.  After bouncing to a stop and a quick check on the snow conditions we had to pack out a strip to take off since the ripples prevented us from getting enough speed before we were bounced silly.  Next spot that day was to buzz the top of Max’s Mountain.  I don’t know if Alyeska Air Service ever landed there.  Finally we headed over to Portage Lake and landed on the ice.  That one was pretty uneventful.  Ted eventually got my brother me and to Girdwood where my parents met us at the airport to take us to our cabin.

Dr. Frazier was an anesthesiologist in Anchorage and when he wasn’t working or skiing he did manage to make it a habit to climb mountains.  He stayed at our cabin in Girdwood a few times, always sleeping on the porch in his sleeping bag.  It was too hot in the cabin for him.