Dawn, Raina, Liam and Scott woke at 3:50 to wander the campground playing a boreal owl recording. No owls heard but new for the trip were singing varied thrushes.
We made our shuttle bus bound for Wonder Lake in Denali Park at 6:15 am.
The ride in was fairly quiet as far as large animal sightings until just before our scheduled stop to hike. Two young grizzlies provided great 20 foot photo opps. from the bus.
Park policy dictates that hikers cannot get off within ½ mile of an animal so we went a half mile, de-bussed and headed right back to where the bears had been. A heavy fog cloaked their presence but when it lifted slightly one of the bears was wandering towards us so we waved our arms and spoke loudly and it turned away.