Wrangell-St. Elias 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. Most of it can only be accessed by plane. 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 reading and 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.

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