Alaska Cruise
July 2014
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to train to Denali | to North Pole, AK |
Denali National
Park & Preserve
Tuesday, July 22
Weather: Partly cloudy, Hi 68
all day | Denali Shuttle Bus to Eielson Visitor Center (8 hr roundtrip) |
Fitbit stats:
To bed: 8:49 pm, Got up: 4:29 am (7:24 asleep)
Steps: 8,556 (4.01 miles)
Floors: 37
We wanted to take one of the first shuttles into the park, both to avoid later crowds and to have a better chance of seeing wildlife. Unfortunately, this meant getting up VERY early to catch the shuttle from our hotel to the WAC in time for the 6:15 am park shuttle departure.
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National Park & Preserve scenery
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East Fork River |
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Polychrome Overlook
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'Selfie' at Polychrome Overlook |
A caribou and a bear across the road from each other!
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Some more caribou (2 caribou and a calf).
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A caribou in the road. I have a video of this caribou posted at youtube. |
Approaching Eielson Visitor Center
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Eielson Visitor Center
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Actual view of the mountain peaks. McKinley is so hidden by clouds you can't even tell it is there. Oh well. |
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A pretty quilt on display at the Visitor Center. |
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A tiny haystack on a hill =
A grizzly up on the mountain slope.
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A bull caribou sleeping on top of an embankment.
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More scenery.
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And back over Polychrome Pass. These photos are for my cousins, who once again refused to appreciate the view in person.
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More scenery.
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Spotted a golden eagle. Honestly, the black dot in the clouds is an eagle.
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and 2 up on the ridgeline |
As we made our way back to the park entrance, we encountered a moose-jam -- a traffic jam caused by a bull moose drinking from a stream near the road.
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We were going to eat at Prospector's Pizzeria the second night in Denali, but they were taking *forever* to seat people because they were holding multiple tables for a group of 22 (we could have gotten our pizza, eaten, and been gone by the time they were ready to seat that group) and they didn't seem to care, so I snapped this photo of their 49 beers on tap and we went back to the Salmon Bake, where we were seated in minutes. This time I had their Alaskan halibut fish and chips.
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