A Walk on the Wild Side

Denali National Park was the next stop and what a stop it was. We got there Friday and stayed right outside the park.

The next morning, bright and early we biked two miles in 30 degree weather down to the visitor’s center. We had gotten a great deal on shuttle bus tickets.

The ride was eight hours long and went all the way to Mt. McKinley. We learned some interesting facts about Denali too. One of them was Denali is 6,000,000 acres, which is about the same size as Massachusetts, except with a lot more trees. We had a great time and saw lots of wildlife. Soon after we started we saw two Bull Moose, we got some great snapshots. Then we saw caribou and Dall sheep, which are the only white, wild sheep. Later on we saw grizzly bears, in all we saw about six. One of them was by himself about half way up a hill. He started walking closer and closer toward us. We got some good close-ups like the picture in the collage. Soon he came up and went on the road right around the bus. It was really cool!

The views were very pretty too. The hills were strange colors, purplish red, green and mustard yellow. The bushes all around were red; it looked like a fairytale land. All the mountains looked like this except Mt. McKinley which, we found out, is over 20,000 ft. tall! It was covered in snow, which isn’t surprising. We spent half an hour eating, hiking and gaping at the mountain before the four hour trip home.

Afterwards we decided to try Alaskan Pizza, which turned out to be pretty tasty. We had a great day in Denali.
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