Flying, Diving, Cruising, and RVing!

Before crossing back into the US, we stopped outside of Vancouver.

Click on the photo to see our photos from downtown Vancouver.

On the way south we detoured a few miles to visit Hyder, AK. Instead of taking the RV back into Alaska, we stayed on the Canadian side at Bear River Rv Park in Stewart, BC. While in the area we took a self guided tour of Glacier Highway, which is a barely maintained dirt road, to Salmon Glacier and also stopped at the bear viewing area at Fish Creek to see if any bears were around. The salmon season was over and we didn’t see any bears.

Click on the photo to see the photos of the glaciers in the area.

The beautiful fall foliage made the drive southbound much more enjoyable than the drive going north earlier this summer.

Click on the photo to see more fall foliage photos from our drive southbound through Alaska, the Yukon and British Columbia.

Instead of heading south to the lower 48 the first week of September, we decided to go back to Denali National Park to see Denali in beautiful fall foliage colors and then head south. Denali Riverview had already closed for the season, so we stayed five nights at Denali Motel and RV Park, until they too closed for the season. The weather was still rainy and I watched several weather forecasts to decide which of the four days to choose for our eight hour trip into the park, which turned out to be our last day in the area. The day could not have been more perfect. There were very few clouds in the sky and Mount Denali was in full view all day long, so we are now two for two on seeing Denali’s summit. On the 132 mile round trip green shuttle bus ride to Eielson Visitor Center, we saw four caribou, a wolf, a grizzly bear and several sheep, but no moose. After we got back from Eielson, we returned to our campground, had dinner and then went back to the park with the intent of getting sunset photos of Mount Denali, but we encountered six moose in the tundra/taiga area, so getting moose photos trumped getting sunset photos of Mount Denali.

It’s been a great summer and we’ve really enjoyed our Alaskan adventure, but it’s time to head south, before all the campgrounds close for the season and/or it starts snowing.

Fall has arrived in some areas of Alaska and the scenery is more beautiful than ever.

Click on the photo to see more of our Alaska fall foliage and Mount Denali photos taken on our drive up the Parks Highway to Healy, AK near Denali National Park.