Breakfast at Roadhouse - full order of the "standard" breakfast ($13) included 7.5 scrambled eggs, 6 pieces of thick sliced bacon, a full plate of hash browns, orange juice or apple juice, coffee or tea, and two thick slices of toast. Large cinnamon roll was optional. We got a half order.
Spent most of the day blogging and fixing pictures on the blog. Also got our laundry done.
We had tried to fly but the weather was such that the Talkeetna Air Taxi limited its flying to taking climbers and supplies out to base camp. We waited patiently for a call from TAT to tell us it was clear enough to fly but the call didn't come. We made arrangements to try again Thursday morning at 9:00 am.
In the meantime Hank and Carl walked down to the river and managed to shoot these pictures - one is an immature bald eagle perched in a tree, the other is a mature bald eagle in flight.
Hank ventured forth at sunset (about 10 pm) to get a picture of Denali with evening color. He was a little disappointed with this but it looks nice anyway (even though Denali was no longer visible).
We also discovered that there is more than one way to say "Wash your hands".
Click on this to enlarge it.
Talkeetna is the center for mountaineers climbing Denali. The Park Ranger Station in Talkeetna told us that about 3,000 climbers attempt Denali each season...
April - mid July. On average 50-55% actully summit. ~60 countries were represented last year. 39 climbers were already on Denali, with lots of other people out in the "hills" doing technical climbing or some of the other peaks.
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