Alaska: the most northern part of our adventure
A strange atmosphere here in Fairbanks. The sight is only a few kilometers, because of the
smoke in the air from the forest fires all around Fairbanks. One can barely see the sun, its like
having fog all the time. We were asking ourselves why we had come up here if we couldn’t see
the landscape anyway.
On the way up we got a stone that was thrown up by a passing lorry on a gravel track in the windscreen. It chipped the glass and was quite nerved. Remembering having heard back home the adds from carglass that recommend to get a small problem repaired to avoid further cracking I was wondering what to do. A couple of hours later Kate saw a pick- up driving around the campsite advertising windscreen repairs. Amazingly within 10 minutes and 35 $ they had made the chip almost completely disappear.
A strange atmosphere here in Fairbanks. The sight is only a few kilometers, because of the
smoke in the air from the forest fires all around Fairbanks. One can barely see the sun, its like
having fog all the time. We were asking ourselves why we had come up here if we couldn’t see
the landscape anyway.
On the way up we got a stone that was thrown up by a passing lorry on a gravel track in the windscreen. It chipped the glass and was quite nerved. Remembering having heard back home the adds from carglass that recommend to get a small problem repaired to avoid further cracking I was wondering what to do. A couple of hours later Kate saw a pick- up driving around the campsite advertising windscreen repairs. Amazingly within 10 minutes and 35 $ they had made the chip almost completely disappear.
Surprisingly the sky was completely clear when we woke up. We had to go to town to get the wheel realigned, but drove off early afternoon. After an hour the smoke started again but by the time we hit Denali we still could see quite a lot of the mountain. Very excited we figured out which campsite in the park to go on and went in with food and drink for several days. Now I really felt like we had arrived and we were in the wilderness on our own! The usual precaution about bears and other animals had to be taken but we spend our first night out in the park with temperatures dropping below zero.
We had to get back out of the park to call the Fairbank campsite because Kate had forgotten an important document folder in the campsite. In the afternoon we went on
our first hike up here. It’s quite particular because
there are no paths. They want to keep the wilderness
"wild" and therefore people are encouraged to find
their own path. The kids were in great form equipped
with their new "Camelbags", a waterbag inside the
rucksack that has a tube passing onto your chest so
that you can drink all the time without having to take
a bottle out. They were on great form and walked up
a river bed and a steep hill covered in shrubs as high
as their heads for more than an hour. Not one single
Moose tracks!!!!!
a bottle out. They were on great form and walked up a river bed and a steep hill covered in shrubs as high as their heads for more than an hour. Not one single whing!!! That never happened before. Unfortunately we could not see anything of Denali, or Mount McKinley, because of the smoke. But it was still great to be out there.
a bottle out. They were on great form and walked up a river bed and a steep hill covered in shrubs as high as their heads for more than an hour. Not one single whing!!! That never happened before. Unfortunately we could not see anything of Denali, or Mount McKinley, because of the smoke. But it was still great to be out there.
