Day 16 Wilderness day 3 We woke up and climbed out of the tent, to a great view of 2 bears running around on the hill in front of us. It was ok as there was a river bed and 2 other hikers in their little yellow tent in between us. We began our walk back to the road, after our ritual washing and collecting water we set off down the river bed. We were nearly at the road when we heard lots of shouting. We turned round and the other hikers were scre...

Day 15 Day 2 Wilderness In the morning Ian said he'd woken in the night thinking he heard something walking round the tent, so he started hitting the tent and shouting, but in a second thought reckoned he must have dreamt it. We decided just to walk leisurely to the nice camping spot, unfortunately the little yellow tent was still there so we found the best plce we could, made our triangle, looked around and saw a fabulous view of mount mckinley...

Day 13 Wilderness day 1 We caught the bus and after a very touristy uneventful busride we were dropped off in our section (33) at the river bed. We had no idea were to go so we tried following our bear training, wide open spaces, so we stayed in the river bed (pain in the ass to keep crossing) decided to go against advice and cross the river in our sandles which was baltic. We ended up walking through a meadow on Stoney Hill. We stopped for a while th...

Day 13 We caught an early bus and spent 6hours passing through Denali to Eilssen visitor centre and back to Sanctuary cmpgroubd inside the park. After just 1/2 hour we saw our first bear, very exciting followed by a Caribou which ran across the road, our bus driver was a very scary woman, telling us bear facts on the way. We saw 9 grizzly bears in total, including one feeding on berries just metres from the road and a large blonde sow with two cubs. As we...

Day 12 We woke up early for a shower, queued up and managed to book all of our camping and backcountry permits for the next few days, it was far simpler than we had read, but did forget to put our names on the backcountry list when we arrived (at 7am!) we had a few nail biting hours to see if we got our place but we did luckily. We had to watch the obligatory Bear & Moose safety video and collected our small but heavy bear can before we could leave, it ...