Day 39, Sunday, 7/26: Woke up around 2:30 this morning and it was actually dark outside!!! First time in quite a while…. We are further south now and days are getting shorter too.
Bob is fixing breakfast outside on the camp stove this morning. It is nice not to have bugs and the wind has died down. The plan today is to take the shuttle to Savage Creek campground and look around there. We will decide after that if we want to buy tickets to go further into the park.
We took the shuttle bus over to the Wilderness Access Center intending to go to Savage Creek. Asked the bus driver how far into the park we should go and he said to Eielson which is the 8 hour tour. He said we could also camp at Teklanika Campground which is 30 miles into the park and then catch the shuttle bus there, making the trip 6 hours instead of 8. The deal is you have to stay 3 nights there and only make one trip in and one trip out. They like to limit the traffic on the park road. So, we decided to make a reservation. At first we were told it was full but we checked with someone else and they said we could go tomorrow. Once again they gave us a refund for Riley Creek and we are set to go to Teklanika for 3 nights starting tomorrow. It is now only $8 a night. The shuttle ticket to go all the way to the end of the road is $31 each. The first day you have a reserved seat, and after that you can go on a stand-by basis. You aren’t allowed to tow anything to Teklanika so we are leaving the trailer at the long term parking here. Had to do a little shuffling to make room for things we might need that are normally in the trailer. Price of a small loaf of bread at the store…. $5.99… ouch…
Decided we don’t need bread that bad!
We did hike from the Visitor’s Center back to camp today and that was a nice jaunt. They have lots of trails around here and it was good exercise. It has been cloudy today and in the high 60’s.
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