Heading Straight North...

Has summer come to Alaska?! Today was another day of incredibly warm weather. In fact, it got up to around 72 degrees during my run from Willow to south of Trapper Creek. The 29 miles I logged today went pretty quick and I felt good all day. There was a lot of traffic on the Parks Highway today and that made for many moments of having to jump onto and off of the shoulder of the road - which was very narrow in places. Mount McKinley grew larger and larger in front of me as I ran closer to it. My mother and I got some great pictures of McKinley and I am so fortunate to be able to see it so clearly day after day.

My father was telling me that many people travel to Alaska to see Mount McKinley and too often the mountain is blocked by heavy clouds and many visitors don't actually get to see it. I've been able to see it mile after mile for two days now... without a cloud in the sky! Yes, this has been an incredible trek so far with the warm weather. In fact, aside from a few raindrops that I experienced in Juneau on day one, I have not had any rain - and actually very few clouds. I am now 242 miles into this 500-mile trek through Alaska and tomorrow morning I will cross over the halfway point. After wrapping up today's 29 miles I was transported to Cantwell, Alaska (where I am tonight in the RV along the side of the road). I don't have an Internet connection and will hopefully be able to publish this journal entry tomorrow evening when I am in the area of Denali National Park.

Tomorrow will be a 30-mile run from Cantwell to the Denali National Park visitor center. I believe the clear, warm weather is supposed to continue. So, it was a very good day and I've had dinner, gotten a shower, iced my legs and feet, and am now relaxing in bed writing this journal entry on my small laptop computer. It's time to get some sleep since the alarm is set to go off at 6:20 a.m. to begin another day on the road.

That's all from this Alaska milepost! Thanks for stopping by and be sure to run back here tomorrow.