Tolsona Wilderness Campground
We’ve spent four days in the woods “just camping”. This campground is much like the campgrounds we frequented in the days of tenting and pop-up camping. The location is beautiful; bubbling stream, ample space, great campfires with good friends, lots of mosquitoes. (Had to have the last item for authenticity!) Actually we’ve been very fortunate, the mosquitoes have not been anywhere as bad as we’ve experienced in prior years. Here’s our traveling group enjoying the campfire.
Both Robert and Stan have long handled axes and seem to enjoy using them! While firewood is plentiful, it is often not split.
Although we had hoped to hike from here, every day we’ve had bouts of rain so we’ve spent much of the daytime doing indoor chores including working on the menu plan for our 7 day remote tent camping trip in early July.
One morning this female Hooded or Common Merganser stopped in our stream.
Glenallen borders on the Wrangell St. Elias National Park, the largest US national park. The park is larger than Switzerland and has higher mountains. (See the gray area to the right of the push pin.)
Today we drove to the National Park Visitor's Center and got some excellent views of more of the mountains. Several of these mountains are actually active volcanoes.
We listened to several Ranger Talks including one about the river otter. The river otter is found in many areas of the US. He’s a most ingenious critter. Otter’s dens always have a door both above and below the water line. That way if a land-based predator approaches, the otter can escape under water. In the frozen north, the otter uses the beaver’s den as a route below the frozen stream to unfrozen water below.
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