YOLO along the Denali Highway, Aug 2022

 The Hub, the only business at the junction of the Denali Highway and the Richardson Highway.  If it wasn't here, you weren't going to get it.

The fireweed blooms are mostly now gone.  The leaves and stems turn a bright red and each of the spiky shoots becomes a seed pod, ready to burst into fluffy white seeds when touched.

Low clouds in front of the Alaska Range along the Denali Hwy.  The snow at the top is new.

These are low bush cranberries, also known as lingonberries.  People say they get sweeter if you wait until after a frost to pick them.  

Our hiking ended at this mud puddle that covered the entire trail.  It didn't stop these 4WD trucks who were off to hunt moose in the lands beyond.

Blueberry bushes like these lined the path so we picked our way back.

Some mega mushrooms grew along the way, too.  Not our eating choice this day.

A view of the Alaska Range with new snow, across the tundra full of berries.

Our view from a campsite along the Denali Highway.  The yellow, rust and oranges are new.  This was all lush green when we were here a couple of months earlier.

Lovely view of freshly snow-capped mountains and lush green tundra under unusual clouds.

This fireweed is starting to go to seed.  It's still an awesome sight for me.  I love this stuff!

Nice view of a glacier across the valley from the Denali Hwy.

YOLO in a pretty parking spot for the night.

View from our campsite included these glaciers...

and these mountains.

Hartmut, from Heidelburg, Germany, and Jason around the campfire at the shared campsite.

Hartmut's grandson, Mattis.  The grandparents were showing the grandsons the grandeur of Alaska in the rental campervan.

Linus and Hartmut at their dinner table around our campfire along the Denali Highway.  Hartmut and his wife, Marion, had camped in this spot years ago when they'd first visited Alaska.

The morning sun finds a slot i n the clouds and highlights a peak and a slice of the glacier.

A view from our campsite above the lake along the Denali Hwy.  Ancient peoples used to follow the caribou here on their hunts.

Jason at one of our riverside campsites.  We'd just find a little road or pulloff that led down to the water and park there.

The peanut butter and blueberry rollups were so good the first time that we had to have them again.  So many fresh blueberries to use up.

Quite the view out the windshield as we drove towards Tok.

This peacock in stained glass was the window in the door....

of this seemingly abandoned log building along the road.  The bell in the steeple was puzzling, too.