We’re in an rv in denali. We dubbed the rv ‘das boot’. All-in-all it’s pretty amazing. Denali is the size of massachusetts and has only one road in it that only runs 90 miles to the west of the entrance. there are school buses that shuttle people into the interior and will stop for wildlife viewing or to pick up and drop off hikers. There is a lot of very remote wilderness here.

You can pretty much hike everywhere in the interior because there are no trails and almost no trees, due to the treeline being at 2000 feet.

Yesterday on the bus, we saw a sleeping grizzly. Thing was big. And kind of sweet looking. We’re really into bear safety now. I’m kind of obsessed with it, actually.

Whenever someone on the shuttle bus spots an animal in the distance (and it can be up to about a mile away), they yell for the driver to stop so that we can all stare at the dot on the hillside and take pictures that won’t turn out. During these moments, I spend my time documenting people taking pictures, which will actually turn out.

I’ll post photos upon my return. Lots of typing because the three other occupants of das boot are sleeping in. I death-marched them to the top of a peak yesterday, so they’re tired and hate me. They’ll probably hate me more when they find out that I’ll be doing it again today.

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