It's a Tundra Wilderness Out There

I'm going to fill this post with lots of pictures. I will preface the photos with the story of our trip and then add captions as I see fit.

After getting lunch in Denali, we boarded a school bus - the safest vehicle alive (thanks Dad, for the 10th time) - at roughly 230 p.m. Our guide, Justin, drove us into Denali National Park and took us into the Wilderness. Along the way we saw Caribou, Dall Sheep, Moose, Grizzly Bear and the Mountain. We went to mile 62, 9 miles further than expected and got some fantastic shots of grizzlies and the mountain. Despite driving in some precarious situations along roads carved out of mountainsides, we survived the affair in one piece. We got back to the lodge by 930, had some dinner and then hit the sack after a very long day.

Here are some pictures of the animals we saw as well as the scenery. I am saving the mountain for another post - one that will most likely be put up tomorrow or the next day - as there were too many photos and it was too magnificent to be muddled in with other blog entries.


Caribou!


I seriously thought about taking one of these home. They are ADORABLE


I spent 8 hours in the back of this thing...


A Golden Eagle


Grizzly Bears - they are golden in color in Denali because of some strange mutation


Our guide, Justin, has been doing this for 12 years. He spends his winters doing tours in other countries of the world. I want to live his life.


We had to go around some hairpin curves like this. The road was cut out of a mountain - one false move and you fall 700 feet