Cabin Night 2010

We went to employee's night at Cabin Night. They feed you really well, Salmon, Ribs, Fish and more it is all good and delicious. Then they put on a show. As the pictures tell Gene made friends with one of the girls and we all had a good laugh and a good time.

Mama moose

You can tell it is spring when the mother moose come to Riley Creek and have their calfs. We have two mothers these are pictures of just one. Our new co workers got their first really good look at her as you can see, she was close enough to look in their trailer window. The wildlife in Denali is the whole bases to the park and everyone enjoys them so much. Well not everyone. As you all might have seen (or might not) on TV we had a grizzle bear killed a few days ago. Yes our oh so smart Congress passed a law that you can carry guns in the National Park now, not discharge it just carry it. Well we had a backpacker decided he could so he would. A bear came out of the brush and he shot it 9 times. There has not been a bear killed in Denali that anyone can remember but this guy has changed all that. I always thought backpackers knew how to enjoy nature and knew how to avoid a conflict with wild life. Must be not all backpackers love nature, and for God sake this is a Wildlife Preserve!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Denali

Sorry again no pictures but we have arrived in Denali and have gotten set up and settled in and completed most of our training. Will take pictures and post at a later date. We are well and the trip was good for the most part but sure do miss the dog.

Arrived in Alaska

On Thursday May 6th we arrived at the North Pole, Alaska and have settled down for a couple of days to grocery shop and do laundry. Sunday the 9th we will go to Denali National Park and settle down for the summer. It has been a good trip except for the snow and a broken windshield on the coach.

Sign Post Forest

On May 4th we arrived in Lake Watson safely, we took a walk over to the sign forest and put one of our old license plates on one of the poles. So after 5 years we have left our mark on the sign forest in Canada. It was a good day travelling we got to see Caribou, Big Horn Sheep, a Black Bear, a Grizzle Bear, some Bison, a couple of mother moose with yearlings, and a wolf, and we have not even got to Alaska yet.

Yes it snow

Yea Yea that right we found snow in Canada. On Monday the 3rd of May we got caught in a snow storm. We were half way between Fort Nelson and Toad River (where we planned on spending the night), and we had to stop at a rest stop with alot of truck drivers. We spend 18 hours there, (from 2 p.m. till 9 a.m.) then in the morning the snow plow trucks showed up and plowed the road, they were still very icy but we went on with care and made it to Watson Lake. As you can see from the pictures it was a beautiful sun rise. It is always adventure coming to Alaska.