Mt McKinley

Everyone should have a cuddly teddy-bear

Camera-shy moose

We have seen the mountian and what a mountain it is, all 20,000 plus feet of it Mt McKinley. The trip into Denali Park was fantastic. We saw 9 grizzly, 3 families of ptarmigan, herds of mountain sheep, and too many caribou to count. The thing we didn't count on seeing in the park was so many people, the number of tourists in Alaska is amazing. You wouldn't believe the money in RV's up here, more than in the goldrush I'm sure.
We are having a bit of trouble getting used to these midnight hours. The other day we spent 11 hours on a tour Denali Park only to return to a campsite that was void of wildlife-I mean of any kind-not a person to be found. Ken and I lit ourselves a fire and proceeded to make ourselves a little dinner, wondering what everyone else was having and was it as good as our Dogs? When I chanced to look at my watch between mouthfuls.....11:00 pm! How could this be? Not our regular dinner hour, we thought. Oh well when in Alaska........eat when you are hungry and sleep when you are tired!