First Aurora of the 2021-22 season.

I finally got to see my first aurora of the season here in Anchorage and it put on a nice show starting around 11pm local. There was one pretty intense burst with some nice pink bands that only lasted for less than a minute just before midnight. A very nice way to start the aurora season. Hoping it’s going to be a good one. Click on each picture to see full-screen with captions.

Late Fall in Denali.

We headed up to Denali National Park and Preserve early Tuesday, Sept. 14th for what will most likely be our last trip of the year. It was raining hard all the way from Anchorage to Cantwell, where the rain stopped and the weather kept getting better and better as we got to the Park entrance.

It’s always a good sign when the mountain is out as you drive into the Teklanika campground. This was a short trip with gorgeous colors and not very many animals at all, in fact, the fewest we’ve ever seen on a trip, but it’s still our favorite place on earth, so come along for the ride.

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A crazy trip to Denali.

We headed back up to Denali National Park and Preserve early Monday, August 23rd. We’re going to stay a full seven nights this trip, one of our longest stays to date. On the drive into the Teklanika campground in our motorhome we saw something we haven’t seen in 12 years.

This ended up being a trip filled with surprises—good and bad.

The Park Road was closed at the East Fork River bridge the entire time we were there due to rock slides up at Pretty Rocks in Polychrome Pass, so we lost out of seeing a lot of the park, but we still had a blast.

Oh yeah, and then there was the snow! Come along for the ride. As usual I’ve put up way too many pictures. The captions will tell the story.