While C continued working an 18 day stretch, my parents and I spent 3 nights at Teklanika Campground in Denali National Park. We saw all of the big 5!

While I hope to write a couple posts on our Teklanika stay, I will start with the wolf on our last day. With only 90ish wolves in 6 million acres, we were extremely lucky to see one. And we were able to watch him at close range!

We were near East Fork on a transit bus. The East Fork of the Toklat River is in the center of the above photo. The wolf was casually trotting down the road, on the prowl for a snack. He crouched, chased and pounced after an Arctic ground squirrel, but it made it to its tunnel.

Later it swallowed this, maybe a pika? Hopefully a vole as pika are just too cute. After days of searching I had finally seen a pika just up the road from the wolf. Google a pika for a photo – this relative of a hare is adorable!