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On the road again! Join along in our travels.

  • Float Plane ”Flightseeing” … it’s a thing!

    Day 27 September 10 It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood! Today is the day we fly out of Chelatna Lodge. I’m incredibly grateful that the day broke clear, sunny and calm for our flight. Our float plane came in and gently cruised to the shore line. Our pilot had to cruise right up to…

  • Fishing and Dancing

    Day 23-26 September 5-10 We are currently at a very remote fishing lodge on Chelatna Lake inside the Denali Preserve. It’s so remote that everything has to be flown in. We were treated to pictures of an ATV strapped to the struts of a float plane! Our very young pilot assured us that it’s not…

  • Be prebeared, things are about to get Grizzly

    Though technically Grizzlies these brown bears are the same species Ursus arctos. Grizzlies are inland and the bears we are seeing are coastal brown bears. Day 21, September 4 We signed up with Wild Alaskan Bear Tours which meant we had to be at a small airfield by 8 am today. As many of you…

  • Ice, Ice Baby

    Day 18 September 1, 2026 Thought about paddling for about one chilly minute when we got up this morning. Temperature hovering around 39 degrees Fahrenheit and the water had white caps visible. Sipped on my tea and quickly voted to go for a hike. Kenai Fjords National Park was about an hour drive from where…

  • We actually are 30 percenters!

    Day 16 August 30 Hit the road early as I really wanted to do the short hike into Three Lakes from the George Parks Highway and maybe see a moose eating in the lake. Pulled in, hopped out and started hiking along thinking about a moose when we realized we were also hiking in prime…

  • Denali, Deenaalee, Dinadhi, Denaze, Dghelaay Ce’e, Dghelay Ka’a, McKinley????

    Day 14, August 28th All the many ways this beautiful mountain has been identified by the native people. Woke up to a light rain and clouds but decided to stick to our plan to hike the Tsenesdghaass Na Trail (Or Three Lakes trail) as we are hoping to do the Savage River Trail and Alpine…

  • The Long and Winding Road Part 2 – And Narrow….

    Day 12, August 26 We knew when we decided to spend an extra day exploring Jasper that we’d pay the price in long road days. Today was no exception. We had to get from our camp at Pine Lake to a site that allowed us the time we needed to drive the Denali Highway. I…

  • The Very, Very Long and Winding Road

    Day 9, August 23 Woke up after a nice evening at Pyramid Lodge and saw that the smoke had finally cleared and blue skies and beautiful views of Pyramid Mountain greeted us. Decided we had to knock off another body of water so jumped on our boards as the sun crested the mountain. #98 Pyramid…

  • Jasper Strong

    Day 7 August 21 Today was another early start day (notice a trend here). Up and off to get on the water before the lake winds picked up. There are so many lakes asking to be paddled here in Jasper National Park. We were on our first lake by 8:30 am. Paddled Edith Lake #96,…

  • “Louie, Louise (Lake) I gotta go now”.

    Remember the Kingsman song from 1963? We actually played this at our wedding! Day 5, August 19th Lake Louise Alberta Canada Thought we got up early enough to get out to Lake Louise before the upper parking lots all fill up – ran into to two issues, we didn’t realize there was a time change…

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