This morning we ate breakfast at our campground, the Sourdough Lodge in Tok, Ak. The story behind sourdough is this... during the gold rush, the prospectors had to be very creative to keep their sourdough starters warm so they could make bread. Bread yeast was unavailable so all of the bread was made from sourdough starter. It was generally thought of as women's work, but not so in the gold rush days. Back to breakfast... we had sourdough pancakes and reindeer sausage. Sorry to all of you Rudolph fans, but the sausage was really, really good!! I'm going to try to find some to bring back with me.
We drove a couple of hundred miles and skirted the Alaska Range and Wrangell-St Elias National Parks as well as visiting 2 of the visitor centers. This is not a park that one can drive through. There is one road in from Chitina a 33 mile drive from the highway then a 60 mile dirt road that is built over an old railroad bed. We have opted to take a shuttle in and leave the truck and trailer parked at the campground. We will be staying for 2 nights at the backpacker hotel and doing a three days of day hiking. Tomorrow we will hike to the Root Glacier, Saturday we will tour the Kennicott mine and hike up to one of the abandoned copper mines up above the tree line, then on Sunday we will hike to another glacier then will take the shuttle back out to our campground.
Pulling into the campground today we got our 1st flat on one of the trailer tires. We got it changed pretty quickly and the folks at the campground are going to get the flat tire fixed while we are in Wrangell-St Elias. We had Russian food for dinner tonight, wow it was really, really good!
More on Sunday night after we come out of the park. Monday we will head to Steward for a couple of days of kayaking and hiking.
kate
Alaska range and a quiet lake with fire weed in bloom
Moose feeding in a small lake in Chitina, Ak
Alaska Range in the Wrangell-St Elias National Park
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