Chpt-20 Anchorage / Denali

In Anchorage, my work starts again. First week in San Diego was about buying a car, now it's about selling it again. Unfortunately I wasn't quite aware about the importance of the "title" of a car. That like the "Fahrzeugbrief" in German. Without it you can't sell a car. Now I have to wait for getting it sent to me. I hope it will be here before I leave.

Dennis, his son Charley and Tracy, which I hiked up the mountain with, just next to Anchorage.


That's what you see up there:


And on the other side.


Next adventure: My ride to Denali Park. It is situated just next to Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America. This is on the highway up there.


Everybody has their vehicle pared right in front of their building. Some of those just fly.


I made a stopover at Talkeetna. Good that I brought my bike again.


The river there is just beautiful.


View from the place I had dinner at.


Seems, no one lives in Igloos anymore nowadays.


That's where my bus into Denali leaves. It takes only six and a half hours to get you from there to the campground.


And this is the pretty bus, taking me and some hard core campers out "Into the wild". Actually, for those of you who have read the book or seen the movie: the bus where he ended up is just right North the place I stayed. Something between 20 to 50 miles north (will have to find out about it later...).


Weather wasn't all too good, and frankly, it went worse...


Nice countryside, soaked with water.


Look at the bus and you get a feeling what my tent will look like 2 days later.





Yupp, they have sheep here in the park. Different from those you know from most farms, though.


On this model you can see what I did not see: the highest mountain in North America: Mount McKinley.


You better bring some good mood when you build up a tent out in the wild in a whether like this. I am not quite sure if my mod was that good in the begining, it was miserable at the end, so much for sure! ;-)


Looks like the one in the movie, huh?


My hiking trail the next day. Usually this is a good spot to see the enormous mountain in the background. Unfortunately, well, see yourself. Weather is pretty much unpredictable over here.





I was happy to be in the bus after two days and nights in the rain. People were arguing who was wetter and more soaked. But a highlight: we saw some Grizzlies just next to the road:



Once more in motion: