Denali Highway

We left Fairbanks last Monday morning, heading for the Denali Highway, a 135 mile long gravel road connecting the Parks Highway with the Richardson Highway. We drove this road the last time we were here, and it was Tom's favorite. We didn't have great weather, with the exception of one day, and we didn't we many animals (only moose and porkupines) but it was a great week. We returned to Fairbanks Friday.

Here are views along the way....

We stopped at lodge where an Iditarod dog musher lives. She was out of town, but a friend of hers, another musher named Sue Martin was there. She has completed the Iditarod race. While there she showed us the dog team and a new liter of pups.

This picture was taken at our camp...more pictures to follow on that. The river in the background is the Susitna. A mighty big river, even by Alaska standards.

While driving along the road, Tom spotted this little road off to the north. We managed to drive down it to the furthest point you can barely see in the picture, where we camped for the night.

It was a beautiful spot.

Here's a view of our camper at the spot at the end of the road pictured above. A nice view!!!

A view of Mt. Hess and Mt. Hayes...Mt. Deborah was a bit out of sight in the clouds...The "shortest" of the 3 is only 12,000 feet.

The view from our back door at Brushkana Camp.