A night at the Denali Hotel, $99. These two rail cars are actual homes. The third one you can't see is the "lobby". I highly recommend it; clean, friendly, fridge and microwave, wi-fi and close to the Park.
Wilderness Access Center at the entrance to Denali National Park. Entry point to fabulous travel through an amazing place!
Bus ride on Toklat Shuttle $14 per person...who needs the fancy tour bus when you get to see all this from the regular shuttle?
Digging up roots for lots of energy...
Caribou don't cool off very well. This one's trying to catch some shade.
This one is just a little guy. He's got some growing to do.
Destination reached...Toklat River. Only thing there is some outhouses and a National Geographic Bookstore sent up in a big tent.
Brenda and I tried to make a set of antlers but they are from the same side of a head. Don't quite match up.
To the left in this picture is a caved out little valley with a cabin in it. Adolph Murie spent 6 years in that cabin researching the wolf population in the park. His wife, Margaret, wrote about much of their time in AK doing research. Some of my favorite books about the state. This is the East Fork River. 
Don't eat these ones, they are toxic...
Lunch at Subway cost us about $7 a piece.
Lunch at Subway cost us about $7 a piece.
Not a bad place to stop and eat it, uh?
After getting off the shuttle to eat at the East Fork River we decided to just hike up the road until the next shuttle came by. It was a beautiful day!
We got on the next bus and not a mile up the road was this momma grizzly with two cubs eating berries. Amazing...
Cubs...
Wait Mom! We are coming?
Last stop before calling it a day was to hike the river walk along the Salvage. 2 miles round trip...
Just taking a little break, she made the whole loop!
And the best part of the entire day? Clear skies to see THE mountain....Mount McKinley in all her glory...PRICELESS!
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