We both slept well last night.  The sun came up around 4:30am, but we were able to close our curtains and sleep in until about 7am.  We drove thru more beautiful scenery for much of the morning.  We went thru another border crossing back into Alaska.  

We stopped at Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge and looked out over a beautiful wetland.  With the help of some binoculars, we saw trumpeter swan in the water.  We still haven't seen any moose or bear.  For all the wildness we've heard about Alaska and the Great White North, I guess we were expecting to see bear and moose in the middle of the road.  The wildlife we've seen has mostly been birds.  We've seen ravens, magpies, a few bald eagles and trumpeter swans.  We've also seen a rabbit and several prairie dogs (or some relative) on the side of the road, both dead and alive.  

We got into the town of Tok, AK and sot more info on the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.  This park boasts a land mass larger than Switzerland with higher peaks.  It contains the largest number of glaciers and the largest collection of the peaks over 16,000 feet.  And only has two dirt and gravel roads leading into it: the 42 mile Nabesna Road and the 60 mile McCarthy Road.  We drove thru more road construction and finally reached Nabesna Road in Wrangell-St. Elias Park.  We found a primitive campsite for the night.  We're still cautious about bears, so we cooked dinner at a rest stop along the road.

We encountered a little more wildlife at this campsite... the legendary Alaskan Mosquito!  Some refer to the mosquito as the state bird (state bird is actually the Willow Ptarmigan).  With plenty of snow melt and this has been the wettest summer in years here in Alaska, the mosquitoes have plenty of stuff to breed in.  We were sitting in the truck enjoying a beer with dozens of mosquitoes probing thru the screens.  I think they only exist to remind Man that he is not on the top of the food chain.