No running, more photos.

Here's the rest of our trip!



The photo here was as close as we got to seeing Denali/Mt McKinley, but here I am at the viewpoint.

We climbed a mountain in Denali State Park for a better look - but we just got a view of rain clouds...

...and then the rain got closer, but we kept going up

...and got a rainbow view before we got POURED on (we never learn our lesson on this!)

An abanonned 3 story igloo

Still no mountain view, but a beautiful day in Denali National Park

Where there were also the nicest drop toilets of all time!

After a quick stop in Fairbanks, we were off on the Dalton Highway - as far north as you can go in North America!

We crossed the Arctic Circle!

And had lunch here. 

If you're passing through the Coldfoot Visitor's Centre, look for us in the new video - we were asked to drive by with our camper while two girls were setting up their tent in the background.

The trees just stopped as we went north.  (can't rotate)

But we got a great sunset before we stopped to camp...

And this view in the morning when we woke up before the mountains stopped too.

Then the tundtra got very flat...

Which made for easy wildlife viewing!

We even spotted wild muskoxen (those dark things).

Deadhorse was just a big industrial zone, so we turned around quickly so we had time to do another hike

Back to reality...we'd been out of the loop for so long, we didn't know why the flag was lowered when we got back to Kluane National Park (Jack Layton had died).

Overall, the trip was amazing!  We had a lot of rain, but it didn't stop us from getting out and doing lots of hikes.  We didn't have any set plans and enjoyed the freedom to just go where we wanted, when we wanted.  We were surprised by how little wildlife we saw, but seeing muskox, which are so weird and prehistoric looking, more than made up for it.  The photos of the Dalton Highway don't do it justice.  This was a breathtaking drive, but all we heard about it before we left was how tough of a road it would be.  While services are few and far between, the highway is paved more than half of the way, hard packed dirt the rest, and very well travelled by pipeline workers, trucks, government and hunters.  Though it was nice to get a break from all of the tourists in the south, there is no reason not to drive this highway and I don't know why more people don't do it!

Now it really is time to get back to reality - and running!