1452 Alaska II

The following day I had to go on a biking tour into the park. My idea: Let’s go as far as possible (the gravel road ends 100 miles into the park!) and then take the bus back. Unfortunately, the temperatur had dropped to -2°C in the morning and the smoke reduced the visibility to a few kilometers. After 2 hours on the gravel, not having seen any animals, inhaled the dust of 30 buses and pretty frozen I had enough and thought I get to the next bus stop and go back. But there was a nice little pass to climb first. Completely exhausted I had to get down the pass on the other side just to find that the bus stop was up another pass. 2 hours later I could wait at the bus stop in the clouds with almost no visibility and not enough in my stomach to catch a bus for the 2 hour ride back - only consolation was the moose and caribou sighting on the way back. We did not give up and took the kids to a bus ride the next day all the way to mile 66 - Fish creek. A 7 hour journey! It rained all day long. Our planned pick-nick walk somewhere on the track ended in a 30 minute stroll along a river in the rain with (at least in the beginning) whinging children. I must admit it was not the kind of sight seeing adventure we had had in mind. We were pretty depressed on the way back until almost back home we could watch a grizzly just 5 meter from the bus grazing blueberries for 10 minutes. He even got up on his hindlegs to look around. Wow that was quite spectacular!!! One starts to understand why you don’t want to mess with them. Not really clear what to do the following day when suddenly we found a splendid blue-sky-view on Mt. McKinley just from our camp side in the morning. We decided for a walk up the mountain next to our site to enjoy the amazing 琢硥⽴獣≳㸯਍⼼敨摡ാ㰊潢祤ാ㰊楤⁶污杩㵮氢晥≴ാ㰊潦瑮映捡㵥䄢楲
The following morning we woke up and from our campsite we had the most amazing view on Denali. We decided to go for a climb on one of the surrounding mountains and to enjoy the view over the landscape. The past days we had not really been able to understand much what the valley looked like, but now it had changed completely with the wheather. While we were having our lunch half way up the mountain, a guy came down the path to let us know that there was a grizzly up the mountain that had stopped him from having his lunch. Somehow dissappointed that we had not gone up not knowing about the bear and discovered him ourselves we finished our lunch. Suddenly Kate spotted the grizzly just on the neighbouring rift coming down the hill. We were able to watch him for about an hour from a distance of 500 meter walking up and down grazing. A great experience for all of us. 硐ඉ硔ඉ
Alaska (cont’d) ɵ
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THE HARSH REALITY OF LIVE KICKS IN: School started today. An the two experienced teachers Kate and Stefan managed without loosing their temper or having an argument with each other. We are in the period of maths: in German (Message to all our teacher friends: we do not need any good advice how to improve the teaching!!! It would not help anyway!). ﯺ﷼
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The following morning we woke up and from our campsite we had the most amazing view on Denali. We decided to go for a climb on one of the surrounding mountains and to enjoy the view over the landscape. The past days we had not really been able to understand much what the valley looked like, but now it had changed completely with the wheather. While we were having our lunch half way up the mountain, a guy came down the path to let us know that there was a grizzly up the mountain that had stopped him from having his lunch. Somehow dissappointed that we had not gone up not knowing about the bear and discovered him ourselves we finished our lunch. Suddenly Kate spotted the grizzly just on the neighbouring rift coming down the hill. We were able to watch him for about an hour from a distance of 500 meter walking up and down grazing. A great experience for all of us.

Alaska (cont’d)

THE HARSH REALITY OF LIVE KICKS IN: School started today. An the two experienced teachers Kate and Stefan managed without loosing their temper or having an argument with each other. We are in the period of maths: in German (Message to all our teacher friends: we do not need any good advice how to improve the teaching!!! It would not help anyway!).