Along the Parks Highway

Another beautiful day in the Denali area.

Since we’re at this campground to prepare for our nine days of dry camping at the national park, that’s exactly what we did this morning. The only thing left to do is to top off our propane ... for which we need to drive about 8 miles north to Healy ... no propane sales anywhere in the immediate vicinity.

This afternoon we headed out for a bit of sightseeing in the Healy direction ... and while we were at it, checked to make sure Three Bears in Healy is indeed selling propane.

The highlight of our afternoon — other than the beautiful scenery and playing along the banks of the Nenana River — was four Dall sheep in the mountains. They were little more than “moving white dots” way up there. But we broke out the binoculars and enjoyed seeing them nonetheless.

On the way back, we continued onto the Riley Creek Mercantile at Denali NP to ask a few more questions about the two campgrounds where we will be staying. Not only did we get our answers, but we’re now checked in for both campgrounds, have our Tek passes for the transit bus, and our confirmation for the Tundra Wilderness Tour. Excellent.

Now all we have to do is show up at the Riley Creek Campground at 11:00a tomorrow and get settled in. We’ve already scoped out the loops and have a list of preferred sites to look for.Les mer