10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (12)
Lake willow is several miles long.
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 02:49 PM•Views: 24
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10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (13)
Finally on the wilderness walk via the bus, we saw lots of berries, which the bears eat all summer to fatten up for winter's snooze.
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 03:19 PM•Views: 24
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10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (15)
More Berries. Alaska, like all of the Pacific coast from So CA northward, was suffering from a drought, which all the locals are convinced is related to global warming. Seeing the glaciers melted way back, and Glacier park in Montana, which we visited a couple of years ago, it is hard to argue against global warming. But then, I am not an oil rich billionaire like Charles and David Koch.
Heck, we hardly see each other.
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 03:24 PM•Views: 25
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10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (17)
Witches Broom in a tree. A dense mass of shoots grows from a single point, with the resulting structure resembling a broom or a bird's nest. It is sometimes caused by pathogens, insects, fungi, or viruses.
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 03:30 PM•Views: 24
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10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (24)
I always wondered what a willow tree looked like.
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 03:35 PM•Views: 24
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10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (26)
Off a well worn trail through the woods. I wondered about bears, but figured our bus driver, guide knew what she was doing, especially when she mentioned when alone she carried a firearm. I asked what caliber, and she said, "45." Oh, well….
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 03:44 PM•Views: 24
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10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (32)
This river, is the boundary of the park. We are looking into it from this ridge.
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 03:48 PM•Views: 25
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10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (35)
Our guide, who was a volunteer for this nature preserve, led us to a tent full of furs and skulls of local animals. All the proceeds from our day tour went to this organization.
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 04:06 PM•Views: 24
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10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (37)
This was #1 of her presentation, an ermine skin. It was soft and very small, so I guess that is why ermine is so expensive. She passed around this and about 8-10 other pelts in increasing size.
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 04:33 PM•Views: 24
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10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (39)
Bear skull
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 05:17 PM•Views: 24
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10 WildernessWalk from CuRLodge (44)
Dahl sheep skull
Capture Date: Aug 10, 2017 05:23 PM•Views: 24
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11 To DenaliPrincessWildernessLodgeDenaliHwy (1)
Beaver lodge in a pond on our next leg of the tour, this a bus ride to Denali Princess Lodge just outside of Denali Park at its main entrance.
Capture Date: Aug 11, 2017 12:47 PM•Views: 24
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11 To DenaliPrincessWildernessLodgeDenaliHwy (7)
We stopped for a lunch of soup and home baked bread at this family run outpost (obviously built by a very short carpenter), OR an interior floor and porch were added to raise the interior above the permafrost, or the building settled because of the permafrost. But usually they settle non-uniformly, so that one end sags.
Capture Date: Aug 11, 2017 01:10 PM•Views: 24
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11 To DenaliPrincessWildernessLodgeDenaliHwy (8)
The (low ceiling!!) dining room was combined with the kitchen and a small gift shop area. A small mom and pop outfit, pretty typical of our last tour (Holland American), but unusual by the big tour company Princess which used their own facilities, except for this one.
Capture Date: Aug 11, 2017 01:48 PM•Views: 25
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11 To DenaliPrincessWildernessLodgeDenaliHwy (14)
Leaving the lunch stop, we climbed out of the valley filled with ponds with beaver lodges. The Black Spruce is a sign of permafrost. White spruce, cottonwood, birch, and certain willows will live where there is approximately 4 feet of soil above the permafrost. Black spruce, with wide spreading and shallow roots, can live where there is only 18 inches of ground above the permafrost.
Capture Date: Aug 11, 2017 03:38 PM•Views: 24
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