After our drive into Denali National Park on Friday morning, July 1, 2022, we returned to our campsite at Riley Creek Campground and finished packing up and tearing down to leave for our 212 mile/4 hour drive to Palmer, Alaska. This would have been the day we drove to Anchorage for a 5 night stay,
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Friday, July 1, 2022 was our last day in Denali National Forest. Even though we had taken the guided tour bus trip when we first arrived, we decided that before we left we wanted to drive some of it ourselves. We left the campsite around 6:30am to drive 13 miles into Denali (the maximum distance
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Thursday morning, June 30, 2022, we arose early (for us, lol), had a large, nutritious breakfast (thanks Cindy!) and headed out to the Denali Visitor Center to go on a three-mile long Ranger-led hike in the park. One of the things we really enjoy about visiting our national parks is taking part in hikes and
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 after Cindy was finally able to book us new reservations at a new site thanks to the City of Anchorage cancelling our stay with almost no notice, we decided we would do a 2 1/2 mile hike around Horseshoe Lake in Denali National Park, not far from our campsite at Riley
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Tuesday June 28, 2022 was a good day and early evening until Cindy looked at her email and exclaimed, “No! That can’t be! NO!” I looked up at her from my e-reader and she cried, “Anchorage is canceling our reservation that starts THIS Friday!” When we were planning our trip to Alaska I had wanted
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 we were on a mission; a mission for eggs. Sunday we ran out of eggs. We walked down to the campground mercantile store, but they were out as well. Monday, after the Dog Sled Demonstration we stopped back by the campground store, but they still had none in stock. We drove
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Sunday, June 26, 2022 was a day of mostly rest for us after the long Saturday on the Denali Wilderness Tundra Tour, even if it was by bus, lol. We did a small amount of walking/hiking around the Riley Greek Campground where we were staying, but not much. Monday, June 27, 2022 was our morning
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Saturday, June 25, 2022 was an all-day adventure for us on the Denali Wilderness Tundra Bus Tour. When we started planning this trip to Alaska a year ago, two of the things we knew we wanted to do was to stay in or near the Denali National Park and to take the Denali Wilderness Tundra
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Thursday, June 23, 2022 was a day of small maintenance and housecleaning chores for us, but mostly relaxing watching the latest episode of Star Trek-Strange New Worlds and reading. We wanted to take Bella for a nice, long walk but the surrounding area wasn’t all that conducive to an enjoyable activity for her. It was
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022 we took a guided trail hike at the Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge here in Fairbanks, right down the road from where we are staying at the Tanana Valley Campground. When we first arrived in Fairbanks and were on the way to the campground, we noticed a large field full of
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