We got the transit bus, which is just a way for people to get through
the 43 miles that are currently open on the park rode. If you’ve never been to Denali, you can’t take your own car past mile 15 on the road
and a rock slide has closed the road past mile 43….so, this is all you get right now. Our transit bus is the most being around people who aren’t masked and in close proximity since the plane and we have
to test negative for COVID in three days to get on the boat, so we’re on mask patrol with windows down as much as possible. Luckily, there is one woman on our bus who sees everything. Caribou, got it. Moose,
got it. Ptarmigan, got it. Bald eagle, got it. Dall sheep, got it. More caribou a million miles away? Got that too. A merlin, got it. Spruce grouse, got it. Golden eagle, got it. All the way to the end of the road.
To the point where other transit buses that are actually moving people through the park have passed us. But, no bears. So, we turn around and start back and at one of the rest stops, a man turns to me and
says, “wasn’t that amazing getting to watch that grizzly for ten minutes?” And I’m like…..I wasn’t on your bus. Damn. But I tell our bus driver, Brian to get the 411 on the bear so we can be sure to see it. He doesn’t, but you can’t miss where
all the cars and buses are stopped up ahead and we get to watch a grizzly munching blueberries for a while. It was great and John got great video of it where it also
pooped…..so Oscar is in 7 th heaven watching this back. John says that it’s the best video he’s ever taken and decisively answers some important philosophical questions about bears shitting in woods…..so, a great sighting. Now, we can head back to the bus center feeling like we got everything we wanted to see in this one $30 bus trip. We get Oscar’s junior ranger badge and head out to find some food. We
come up to Prospector’s Pizza which is also a brewery and get some dinner that is okay. Head back to our Princess Lodge where we still have no view of Denali.
and a rock slide has closed the road past mile 43….so, this is all you get right now. Our transit bus is the most being around people who aren’t masked and in close proximity since the plane and we have
got it. Ptarmigan, got it. Bald eagle, got it. Dall sheep, got it. More caribou a million miles away? Got that too. A merlin, got it. Spruce grouse, got it. Golden eagle, got it. All the way to the end of the road.
says, “wasn’t that amazing getting to watch that grizzly for ten minutes?” And I’m like…..I wasn’t on your bus. Damn. But I tell our bus driver, Brian to get the 411 on the bear so we can be sure to see it. He doesn’t, but you can’t miss where
all the cars and buses are stopped up ahead and we get to watch a grizzly munching blueberries for a while. It was great and John got great video of it where it also
pooped…..so Oscar is in 7 th heaven watching this back. John says that it’s the best video he’s ever taken and decisively answers some important philosophical questions about bears shitting in woods…..so, a great sighting. Now, we can head back to the bus center feeling like we got everything we wanted to see in this one $30 bus trip. We get Oscar’s junior ranger badge and head out to find some food. We
come up to Prospector’s Pizza which is also a brewery and get some dinner that is okay. Head back to our Princess Lodge where we still have no view of Denali.
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