The Good:Seeing the top of Mt. McKinley on the way to Denali Park.
Thrilling to see this mountain; many people spend a week in Denali and never see it.
The Bad: Where there is dampness and no breeze in Danali, there are mosquitoes.
And the Ugly!
Our last night there, it rained constantly. The river that runs by the Lodge grew to the point that it flooded the grounds of the lodge. We were leaving that morning, but we only got .5 miles from the lodge, because:
After 10 hours on sitting on the bus, (the Lodge staff kept us fed and informed) the Forestry Department came and in and flew us to buses on the other side of the slide are, 4 people at a time, and there were 36 of us!
The trip was filled with great hikes, wild life (brown bears, eagles, caribou, Dall sheep and moose!), nice people and good food. A great back country adventure.
After a 5.5 hour bus ride out of the Park, we arrived back at the entrance to Denali at 2 and spent the night in the Denali Village, eagerly looking forward to our 5.5 hour ride to Anchorage – tomorrow, well, really today!
