Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Denali”
A wild wolf in Denali last night.
Yesterday I hit the road and made the long drive to Denali National Park. I arrived at about 10:30 last night, and since it was still light out, I decided to drive a few miles into the park for a look see. Much to my surprise, I came across this wolf along the road just 8 miles into the Park! She was a beauty! This was close enough to capture this with a 100-400! What a great start.Read More
I posted at length this spring about a number of wolves in Denali – I was particularly attached to the Grant Creek Pack since I had been photographing the two adults for a number of years. I first spotted the female in 2002 – she was a hunting machine. I was thrilled to see her form a pack with one of the beautiful black wolves from the Tokalat Pack. It was almost like having two good friends meet and then get married!
On my travels through Denali this month I learned the alpha female had died.Read More
An alert customer of ours spotted this photo on the cover of the Alaska section of the Anchorage Daily news today. It was promoting a page of photos supplied by readers. The photo was provided courtesy of Bob Armond! I’m glad she emailed – with me on the road I might have missed it.Read More
The Denali Road Guide – a must have for first time visitors to Denali National Park, Alaska – won a really cool award recently.Read More
This was on another visit to Denali, about a month after the chase that I wrote about yesterday. The pups had left the den, and we could see them at a rendezvous site across the valley if we looked carefully with binoculars. While we were watching, this very large grizzly wandered down the valley. Three of the adult wolves walked to the top of the bank and watched very carefully – you can see two of them in this photo. After a few minutes, the black yearling went down the bank presumably to run the bear off. Unlike yesterday’s photo, this bear didn’t run. In fact, he barely even looked up! As you can see in this photo, he even has his back to the wolf as he feeds. Read More
The den for the Grant Creek wolf pack has been in a closed area fairly near the Denali National Park road. Because of this, this stretch of road can be very popular with the visitors and tour buses. We were there one day when out of no where a grizzly came charging down the road running in and out of the buses. Janine speculated that maybe the wolves were on to him for being too close to the den. Sure enough, a minute later came three member of the pack charging down between the same buses. They followed the grizzlies scent out to the riverbed where they caught up to the small adult bear and the chase was on! Read More
In the summer of 2004, the alpha pair had a litter of six. From what I have been told, that fall the pack made an extended trip outside its range, and when it returned to the area only two of the six remained. This is one of the two from early summer of 2005. Except for a little less grey in the face, this yearling looks a lot like his father and uncle. The other yearling was light brown. Both of them were beautiful healthy wolves that loved to play and run, and were fearless even around grizzlies as I will share tomorrow.
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