We had the best of luck! Blue sky and warm weather for our 3 days in Denali National Park. We saw all of Mt. McKinley during our bus tour on the 2nd, and again during our "Polychrome" hike on the 3rd (picture at left was taken at Eielson visitor center). We saw several bears, caribou, a couple of foxes, ptarmigans, Dall sheep, and an abundance of snowshoe hares. No moose, though. We had hoped to see a wolf, but they're hard to find. Our campsite was great at Teklanika. Tyler had a blast playing in the wide rock riverbed and the late-thawing ice/snow. On the 3rd we again took the bus up the the Polychrome region and hiked the riverbed for about 8 miles. We saw lots of wolf tracks, but only saw 1 caribou. We had a forge the river at one point (painfully cold water), and were very happy to have our boots on again.
Unfortunately, the bears we saw were quite a distance from the road. The pictures are a little fuzzy due the the zoom lens and unsteady camera-person (the bus was usually moving a little from all the people diving to one side to see the wildlife). Need a bigger lens with a tripod.
Now it's on to Anchorage and Homer/Seward. We found out today that our bear expedition on Sunday was cancelled due to a mechanical issue with the float plane! So bummed out about this! We hope to find something else equally as fun on a holiday weekend at short notice... :-)
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