Cantwell and the sled dogs - Cantwell, Alaska, United States

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Cantwell, Alaska, United States

So I started out the morning early hopeing to see the sun come up and make some cool shadows on Denali, unfortunatly couldn't see Denali yet but I still got some cool photos.

Then, after some breakfast, I headed to this spot to do some snowshoeing. As I was getting ready this guy pulled up with his sled dogs and told me about a trail where I wouldn't have to use my shoes. So I said thanks a bunch and headed off. Well as I passed him he said, "well you could just ride wt me on the sled for a bit, only a mile or so cause then I gotta let ol Eli ride cause he's old and needs the rest"...so I said Hell yeah I'll ride wt you in the dogsled!!!...so he hooks'em up and off we go ....so we get about a mile into it and i'm having a ball...and he says well you could just finish the loop with us and if Eli gets tired we'll just toss him on your lap there in the sled.... ...so for like three hours I got to ride on a dog sled all over. We went down a canyon , which was sweet and pretty much straight down at one point...then we went along and on a frozen river for a spell...then we went around a mountain and up out of a canyon. It was Awesome!!!


After some lunch I did a bit of snowshoeing, which was harder than I expected,  but fun enough. I got to see some great vistas and play in the snow...30 inches of snow.

Then after cooking myself dinner and resting for a bit I headed back to the dog sled jump off point to check out the norther lights. ...which were amazing. Even cooler though was the fact that as I was standing there checking out the lights I started to hear what I thought were footsteps...quadraped footsteps...then out of the corner of my eye I saw what was making the noise...Caribou...they were all around me...apparantly they were crossing the road where I was parked...I couldn't get any pictures because it was pitch black...but they were everywhere!!!