July 17

I made reservations for 3:00pm for a flight over the summit of Mt. McKinley and to land on a glacier. When we showed up, they had cancelled the glacier landing due to weather and were not sure about the visibility of the mountain. So, I decided to forego that trip. So we drove the Jeep back into some offroad area north of Healy. We met a local family (probably Athasbascan heritage) picking blueberries and salmon (or cloud) berries. The grandfather always walked with a rifle over his shoulder to frighten off any bears that might get curious or aggressive.

Later we went to dinner at the Alaska Cabin Nite dinner theater. They served all-you-can-eat baked salmon and pork ribs, potatos, corn, beans and blueberry-blackberry cobbler. The food was good and then they put on a show relating the life in Alaska in the early 1900's...cute show.