Long Haul Trucking | Wash Out

Today we drove to Denali National Park to see the park and Mt. McKinley. It was a beautiful day when we left but when we got to the park it was cloudy and started to rain. You can’t drive all the way through the park. Autos are only allowed 15 miles into the park, only shuttle buses are allowed past that point. Most of the shuttle buses looked like converted school buses with those real comfortable bench seats. The shuttle we had time for was a six hour round trip. With the weather the way it was we decided to drive as far as we could, then head back to Wasilla.

Kind of a disappointment. The clouds were so low we didn’t see much. Not Mt. McKinley, which you can’t see half the time anyway and barely any of the other mountains. Didn’t see any bears, but saw a few moose. We picked out the tour we want to get on the next time. It will probably involve getting there the night before, stay in one of the hotels or cabins then do the tour the next day.

The trip back went through a major thunderstorm with a little hail, made it back to the truck okay.
The sign is the best shot we had inside the park.

This is from the restaurant where we had lunch.

Here’s a moose and a couple of calves.

And the view from the furthest point in the park for autos. You can see how cloudy it was and it kept getting worse.