Denali National Park

Just back to town after a week in Denali National Park.  We did a combination of bus riding, bike touring and day rides to see experience the park.  A weather anomaly left all 20000 ft of Denali  free of clouds for 3 full days, and record setting 85 degree heat! Our animal sightings were worthy of a nature documentary: 3 grizzlies feeding on the hillside above our campspot before all 3 standing up to look at us, a lynx that just sat down on the road in front of the bus, a grizzly walking down the side of the bus, hundreds of migrating caribou, bull moose so close we could hear it chewing and splashing in the water, a grizzly laying down in a stream and shaking off like a wet dog, a caribou running in front of our bikes for a mile down the road, golden eagles soaring with a chick, another being dive bombed by a raven, ptarmigan pairs with chicks, Dall sheep, crying loons, as well as  many interesting travelers and park rangers. What a amazing place; no better biking in the world!