That’s another thing that you have to be aware of with the highest
mountain in North America….you’re never going to see the top….or sometimes any of it. The average is 30% for viewing it…which isn’t great odds really. So, the McKinley View Princess Lodge should really be the foggy, rainy, mountains somewhere out there view lodge. We get up in the morning to more rain and do some laundry, get some breakfast and
then get on the road. Our entrance to Denali is good for 7 days, so I tell the boys that if we’re going to try to adopt a dog, we have to see her again and make sure she’s the one and we drive the 15 miles that we’re allowed to drive through the park. We come up on a ton of people stopped with park rangers present because there is a bear that is eating about 50 feet off the
road. Well, the park rangers shoo us on through because everyone is stopping up the park road, but we get a little bit of a view. We get out and hike the Savage River Cabin loop to check out the permafrost and say that we hiked in Denali…..a very safe hike by Denali
standards. We head up to 49 th State Brewery for lunch and Oscar is delirious because they have a flight of sodas. They brew their own beer and they make sodas that are amazing and he gets a flight of his own this time and ranks his sodas as carefully as his father ranks his beers usually. Some great food, great atmosphere, beautiful space and the van that they filmed Into the Wild with. So, we’ve had to have several talks about
safety that we didn’t expect to
have with Oscar because of this damn bus being brought up all the time. Dropping out of society, living off the grid, misidentifying plants and dying in the wild with hikers dying now to try to reach the bus that
was hard to get to….what a freaking existential conversation to have with a 7 year old…..it’s truly annoying. He wants to know why the van isn’t in a museum now and I’m thinking, how on earth does that deserve to be in a museum….but it is now: University of Alaska Fairbanks….our next stop.
safety that we didn’t expect to
have with Oscar because of this damn bus being brought up all the time. Dropping out of society, living off the grid, misidentifying plants and dying in the wild with hikers dying now to try to reach the bus that
was hard to get to….what a freaking existential conversation to have with a 7 year old…..it’s truly annoying. He wants to know why the van isn’t in a museum now and I’m thinking, how on earth does that deserve to be in a museum….but it is now: University of Alaska Fairbanks….our next stop.
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