Thursday, June 21, 2018

June 21, 2018

Our bus trip up to the Eielson Visitors Center in Denali was really good. We saw over a dozen moose, dozens of Dahl Sheep, dozens if not a hundred Caribou, several Ptarmigan, several Jack Rabbits and Six Grizzlies. Woohoo, we are back in the bear hunt and five ahead of 2016.

We also received a gift of being able to see the Mountain (both peaks) again. They say only 1/3 of the visitors are able to see the Mountain. We have been here 3 times, and have seen it two out of the three.

After 8 hours on the bus, we were exhausted. After going to bed earlier, we got a fairly early start on our trip back down to Wasilla. The trip was pretty nice but no new bear sightings. The construction area I mentioned earlier, was almost completed with new black top. However, we still had a 10 minute delay for the pilot car.

We are here at Big Bear for our final week before heading down to Homer. We have a follow up Vet appointment for Mallory on Friday. Hopefully her infection is gone. On Saturday, we have an appointment at the Jeep dealership to have the last window regulator replaced (again). It was damaged in shipment before we headed up to Denali. And finally, we have an appointment on Monday at the Freighliner dealer to take care of a recall. I guess they need to re-route a power steering hose.

Then after all of that, back to Alaska fun. We plan on a horseback ride and a bunch more hiking.













Lunchtime view from Eielson Visitors Center









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