Is this any place to put an airport?

We left Anchorage and spent the night in Juneau. It's a great town, the capitol of the state and only accessible by boat or plane. I've heard tales ever since I started flying about the challenges of flying IFR in Alaska. Almost conversation has mention of the approaches into Juneau. There is no precision approach into the airport available for anyone but Alaska Airlines. The airport is basically located in a bowl with tall mountains in every direction but one and there are pretty high hills that way. The available approaches don't even line you up with the runway. There's a dog-leg final that takes you through a small cut in the hill before you turn about 30 degrees shortly before touchdown. I attempted to get a panorama of the field but with all the activity it didn't work out so well.

This panorama shows the view from North around to East.


This shot shows the view to the Southeast:



Here's what the South side of the airport looks like:



And here are the hills the final approach crosses:
That little dip right above the Alaskan Airlines jet is where you pass before turning.

We just overnighted in Juneau. It seemed like a really nice small city. I wish we could have spent more time there.