Nabesna

Glennallen, AK – Thursday, July 28, 2011

Rain and more rain. Took our time getting ready, hoping the rain would let up. We plan on taking the Element and going to drive Nabesna road into the Wrangall-St. Elias National Park & Preserve. It is supposed to have great views of the Wrangell mountain range and park. Several hiking trails are there too. Packed for the day and headed out. Still really cloudy. We stopped by the ranger station for information on the road conditions(unpaved all the 42 miles). They gave us a CD guided tour to play as we drove. Great idea and it was very informative. It’s a good thing we saw Mt Sanford yesterday, because we couldn’t see much today. The road started out Ok, but quickly turned to muddy potholes most of the way. We drove down 30 of the 42 miles and turned around when the water was rushing over the road. Still it was an interesting adventure.

We saw a beaver dam and went to investigate, but we never saw the beaver lodge. We also investigated the site of the last place you could homestead land in Alaska. Slana originally had 100 people claim land but in the end only 20 could endure the hardships to end up with the patent for their claims. The patents granted them permanent rights to the land.

We left the park and headed back to get the RV and head south. It did clear up some as we got closer to Glennallen. We found a nice pullout back off of the road and were surprised to find three other RV’s already there. We parked and had a nice view overlooking the valley. Took a walk around and sat outside for awhile. Nice to see a break in the weather.

BG Miles Today	78	BG Total Miles	5761
Eat Out total $	477.88	BG Total Fuel $	3099.16
Entertainment total $	141.52	Total Camping $	652.88
E Miles Today	65	E Total Miles	1880
E Total Fuel $	387.19	Day # of Trip	58