Cantwell Tour

For President's Day weekend Jeff and I were looking to do some schralping somewhere in warmer climes (which more or less ruled out the Deltas). A careful examination of the map turned up a place called Petersville Road, just south of Trapper Creek. It looked pretty sweet, with easy access to some nice mountains, so we headed out. When we started traveling down the road, though, we found first, that the road ended 10 miles earlier than the map indicated, and second...snowmachines. Everywhere. Hundreds of them. So we headed north again and ended up touring just south of Cantwell.

The scenery around the Denali area was, as usual, amazing.

Jeff, riding a rail.

Down jackets are awesome in the cold.

The first day was just a ski in to camp. The next day, we woke up and toured around a small plateau just off the train tracks.

This is looking out towards the start of Kesugi Ridge, which we hiked last summer.

This is the site of our second camp. Just below it, we laid some tracks right as sunset was falling.

Jeff had scored some down booties since our last overnight trip. Here he is rocking down jacket and booties. He claimed the booties made him feel like a ninja...

And here he practices his double dragon kick.

Overall, not the schralp we were hoping for, but a pretty decent tour, and a nice re-introduction to winter camping, AK-style.