Day 29 Ends With Grilled Steaks

Since we missed lunch due to our last minute decision to take the transit bus out to Toklat, Mui lost no time preparing dinner once we got back to the campground.

Rain is said to be in the forecast for tomorrow. We have no way of checking if that is even remotely true. Aside from the weather forecast often being wrong, we are off the grid here ... no TV ... no cell or data signal. So, Mui decided to light a campfire and grill steaks tonight instead of tomorrow as planned ... just in case.

We did not bring our own grill on this trip since we’d have to clean it thoroughly after each use here in bear country. Kind of hard to do when dry camping. Instead, we brought a cast iron skillet which works well on the grate of the fire ring.

The only problem ... Canada jays that congregated in an effort to steal leftovers that were in the skillet — set aside to cool before taking it inside. We had to be vigilant about shooing them away. Nonetheless, we enjoyed our first real al fresco dinner of this trip. That it was warm enough to sit outdoors without bundling up much ... well, all the better.

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An interesting tidbit about the Canada Jay, which is a permanent resident in Alaska. It’s a food hoarder. Whatever tasty tidbits it finds, it apparently uses a sticky saliva to stick in tree branches that are high above the eventual winter snowfall.Read more