We arrived in the Evening at Honolulu on the island of Oahu, most people were met with garlands we were a bit jealous. After deperately and last minute booking our accomodation from Anchorage we caught the shuttle bus into Waikiki to stay at the surf dude hang out, beachside hostal Hokondo. We had a double room but there was a guy in the dorm bit next to us asleep with the tv blasting out, luckily we were tired enough to crash out straight away. The ...

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...