Talkeetna Rendezvous

We met our cousins in Talkeetna yesterday at 1pm. They had gone to Denali National Park to take the bus tour. During their Denali tour they saw some bears and lots of caribou.

The weather was beautiful yesterday. It's gotten better and better as the week has progressed. So, Denali (aka Mt. McKinley) was in clear view for much of yesterday.

We had lunch at the Wildflower Cafe in downtown Talkeetna and then split into two groups. The fellas and Aunt Dorothy headed for a fishing creek. We girls shopped around Talkeetna for a little while and then headed over Hatcher Pass to take in the views.

The fishing folks ended up staying pretty close to Talkeetna on Montana Creek. Aunt Dorothy didn't fish... she mainly read her book and napped.

We took the Hatcher Pass Road from Willow across... up and over... We stopped along the way to take some photos and search for berries (to no avail, we picked about a handful!). When we got to the Pass, there were a couple of paragliders leaping off the peaks and drifting on the air currents overhead. Tess really wants to do this. We'll see. They apparently offer rides (tandem).