Stampede trail

On May 20th we had a day off so we drove out the Stampede trail so Dennis could look for diamond willow trees. They make great walking stick and he likes doing that. First you have to strip the bark off the stick and let it sit for several days so it can dry. FYI the Stampede trail is where the young man by the name of Christopher Johnson McCandless walk into the wilderness and camped out in a old bus that had been left there by workers. Four months after he walked into the wilderness moose hunters found his decomposed body. There was a book wrote about him called "Into the Wild". We can not go back as far as he did but we drive back as far as we can. He hiked back farther into the wilderness and crossed the Tek river.