Long-distance cyclists camp with us at Denali

Since the campground here at Denali was full, we offered to share our campsite with two long-distance bicyclists.  The first one was a young man named Eddie from Maryland who is biking from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay up at the Arctic Ocean.  He said he wanted to touch the water.  Several years before, he had biked from the Atlantic to the Pacific (Delaware to Washington).  We gave him a beer and a place to pitch his tiny bivouac bag and then wished him well the next morning.  He was headed to Fairbanks from here (about 120 miles) and then on to Prudhoe Bay which is 80 miles on a paved road and then almost 400 on the gravel Dalton Highway.  Once he gets there, a friend is going to pick him up and drive him back to Anchorage.  He is going to text us when he makes it to the Arctic Ocean. When we hear from him, we'll post it here on the blog.

 Here is Eddie with his little tent/sleeping bag called a bivouac bag.  He said the hardest part was getting in the thing!  It rained the night he was at our site but I think he stayed dry. 

Here is Eddie starting out to Fairbanks.  Note that he has a spare tire on the back on his bags.  He will probably need it on the 396 mile gravel road to Prudhoe Bay. 


The next night, we shared our campsite with a Korean cyclist named Park.  We had met him at Cooper River South campground in the Kenai Peninsula earlier in the month and he was now spending a few days at Denali.  He is biking all over Alaska.  He is 59 years old and has biked all over the world.  We're not sure how he find enough energy to do all that biking.