We found a place to dump and take on fresh water at the Tesoro gas station. We only drove 112 miles today and stopped on the Glenn Highway at King Mountain State Recreation Site. This campground is on the Mantanuska River. We got the only pull site through right across from the river (everything else was back-ins.) We played dominoes at the table until it started to rain. We took a short drive up the road to Long Lake and saw a porcupine. On a side road we found an old covered bridge alongside the road. It didn't go over anything -- maybe another one of Alaska's bridges to nowhere?
We got a paper today and it said that this summer has been one of the coldest, gloomiest and wettest on record for South Central Alaska according to the weather service. This is because of a low pressure system that has been stagnant over the Bering Sea since early June funneling tropical moisture in over the state. There have been 26 consecutive days with a trace or more of rain in Anchorage. The weather service has not tallied a fair, cloud-free day in Anchorage since April. So they tied a record today for rain.
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