Stampede Road - after the Feb trip

[akdsmer]

Concerned mushers called the park service about us. The rangers met us on the other side of the Teklanika coming home. The ranger we spoke with was honest, friendly and was simply concerned on what we did and where. He expected to see us "highmarking" and driving all over the place. He was suprised to see we simply followed the trail. Later when we spoke with him on the way back he said that he didn't even see where we stopped and camped (directly on the trail) and when he saw the zuki tracks go almost to the bus, he thought we lied to him about how far we made it and where we camped. Since the park rangers rode their sled right through our campsite in both directions and didnt' see any evidence to that, I say we did good and lived up to tread lightly.

Pictures and the story to come later. Broken trailer, broken ignition coil, massive overflow and we still all drove out!