Monday July 18

Kenny Lake Alaska 

9AM  55°F. Overcast 

Heading north on the Richardson Hw.

We stop at the Wrangle-St Elias NP Vistors Center. As we're getting out of the truck we hear, "I'm getting back on the bus. I can hear mosquitoes!" 🤣🤣

Watched a movie about the Park geology and took photos of Mt Drum.

We stopped in Copper Center for breakfast at Ernesto's Mobile Diner. This is at the junction of the Glenn and Richardson highways.

Rather than continue toward Fairbanks we that Rt1 ( The Tok Cut-off road).

Stopped at the Indian River Bridge to fish but the water is too high so we pick up a few cool rocks and continue on. 

We stopped Slana at the Hart D Lodge and RV Park. Turns out the place is closed due to spring flooding but there are 2 water and electric sites near the front gate for mosquitoe breeding: we stay.

There is a collection area in our Rockhounding Alaska book, it'd early, so we're  off. We stop at the Slana Ranger Station to just say hi and find out that we can't get there due to high waters. So we head down the only other road in the Wrangle-St Elias NP: Nabesna Rd anyway.

A little exploring and rockhouding and 3 hours later we're getting back to the trailer and the low gas alarm sounds in the truck. There are no gas stations in Slana. The closet gas is 26 mile back towards Copper Center. We pull in to find a line of vehicles waiting. Power's out; has been for an hour but should be back on before long. One of the waters is a couple from South Dakota pulling an Airstream Bambi (Jared sorry I forgot your wife's name. Safe travels). About an hour later power is restored and we gas up...

Enough excitement for today.