Tag: Grizzly Bear

• Destruction Bay, Fall 2025

  

  We have begun our road trip back to Virginia!  We anticipate taking a bit over 2 weeks, arriving in late September. We didn’t take many photos today, so below I added 3 highlights from earlier trips on this section of the Alcan Highway. We didn’t see any bears on this stretch today (September 13, 2025). …

  Melissa Rudacille

  September 13, 2025

  Birds, travel, Travel to and from Alaska, Wildlife

  Alcan Highway, Bird Watching, fall color, fall road trip, Grizzly Bear, travel, Trumpeter Swans

• Alaska with Friends

  

  Friends came to Alaska for 7 full days, and we traveled together 6 of those days.  They had a good “highlights” adventure, with 3 days at Denali National Park, one night boondocking along the Parks Highway,  one night at Russian River, one night in Seward, and one night at Portage Glacier. Their wishlist was wildlife viewing (including…

  Melissa Rudacille

  July 11, 2025

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska, travel, Wildlife

  Alaska Wildlife, Caribou, Denali, Denali National Park, fishing, glacier, Grizzly Bear, moose photos, Porpoises, Ptarmigan, Russian River, Teklanika Campground, Whittier

• Grizzly,  Porcupine,  Ice Jam, and more

  

  Today, we got a relatively early start to check out a Nenana River Ice Jam, then drive to Teklanika in Denali National Park. We have spent at least 4 hours at a Nenana River ice jam in the past 2 days.  We are fascinated watching the dynamic process, with newly arrived ice crashing into the…

  Melissa Rudacille

  May 2, 2025

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, Wildlife

  alaska, Alaska Wildlife, break-up, Caribou, Denali National Park, Grizzly Bear, Harlequin ducks on Savage River, moose photos, Teklanika River

• Day 15 Travel to Alaska Spring 2025

  

  We drove over 300 miles and saw lots of beautiful scenery,  but I didn’t take photos.  So except for the eagles below,  the pictures on this post are from previous years along the same stretch of road Destruction Bay to Delta Junction. We slept in this morning then enjoyed a full breakfast at Talbot Arm…

  Melissa Rudacille

  April 15, 2025

  Alaska Wildlife, travel, Travel to and from Alaska, Wildlife

  alaska, Alcan Highway, Bird Watching, Grizzly Bear, spring road trip, travel

• Alaska Travel

  

  As we are packing to return to Alaska, I am also planning our 2025 budget.  It is much easier to anticipate what we might spend now that we are on our fourth season!  Last year, I tracked the cost of all our mini-vacations, from 3 to 10 days. It cost us $2630 to drive our…

  Melissa Rudacille

  March 29, 2025

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska, travel, Travel to and from Alaska

  alaska, Alaska Wildlife, Arctic, aurora borealis, Copper River Highway, Cordova, cost per day, Dalton Highway, Denali Highway, Denali National Park, fishing, Grizzly Bear, Hatcher Pass, Russian River, Tangle Lakes, travel

• Healy, AK to Destruction Bay, YT

  

  Day One of our 4400 mile trip to VA.  We started the day seeing a wolf and ended the drive seeing a grizzly bear.   In between, there were many pretty snow-capped mountains with fresh snow. It was snowing as we packed yesterday,  then turned to rain, then dropped to 21 degrees overnight.   Two of the…

  Melissa Rudacille

  September 22, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, Travel to and from Alaska, Wildlife

  Alcan Highway, Bird Watching, fall road trip, Grizzly Bear, Wolf

• Labor Day Weekend, Coho IV, 2024

  

  Fall is here with fresh snow on the mountains and fall color everywhere.   We spent 4 nights fishing for chum and camping at Sheep Creek Slough.  Four co-workers joined us, and all caught at least one fish. We got on the road early on Saturday to pick up a friend at the airport.   Thanks to…

  Melissa Rudacille

  September 6, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska

  Alaska weather, Alaska Wildlife, Bird Watching, coho salmon, Denali National Park, fishing, Grizzly Bear, Sandhill Cranes

• Bore Tide and Bears, Sockeye II, 2024

  

  We planned this 6-day trip  around the Turnagain Arm bore tide.  C was working on the best predicted days, but we still had a shot on his first full day off.  (We will have a chance at a better bore tide in August,  but not sure if we will try again.) We likely would have…

  Melissa Rudacille

  July 27, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska

  Alaska Wildlife, bore tide, coho salmon, fishing, Grizzly Bear, Russian River

• Russian River and Nikiski

  

  We had a splendid week on the Kenai Peninsula, July 10-16.  After C worked 9.5 days on the Riley Fire he took 7 days off.  We spent much of our time fishing for sockeye on the Russian River.  We saw two black bears and one grizzly.  Each bear was closer than the last, with the…

  Melissa Rudacille

  July 17, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, Camping in Alaska, Fishing in Alaska, Wildlife

  Alaska weather, Alaska Wildlife, Bird Watching, Caribou, fishing, Grizzly Bear, Kenai River, Russian River

• Alaska Big Five on May 5, 2024

  

  We began our drive to Teklanika at 6 am, hoping to see wildlife. The day surpassed all expectations! The only easy wildlife siting was our first view of the large grizzly bear walking right down the road.  We stopped and turned off the car, and he just kept getting closer and closer!  About the time we…

  Melissa Rudacille

  May 5, 2024

  Alaska Activities, Alaska Wildlife, Birds, Wildlife

  alaska, Alaska Wildlife, Caribou, Denali National Park, Grizzly Bear, Ptarmigan, Teklanika River, Wolf