One of the first ones we saw was this Rock Ptarmigan. When we tried sneaking up on it, we found out that its mate was scurrying through the bushes herding several chicks away from us.
We saw several hoary marmots. This one sat and watched us walk by.
On the afternoon of our second day, we decided to go explore Chitistone Pass, where we had set up camp. As we were coming back, we spotted a herd of caribou peacefully grazing in front of our tent (you can see our tent in the upper right corner).
Then Sonja scared them.
Sonja decided that she didn't want the caribou eating our fig newtons, so she chased them away. I cut her out of this picture so she wouldn't get in trouble from the Park Service, but she was right behind them to the left.
We were as surprised as anyone to see a walrus hanging out near one of the glaciers. We later asked the park service about it and they thought we had misidentified it, that what we had actually seen was minke whale. But lo and behold, once we developed our film, there it was! Besides, I knew that minke whales were only found in spruce forests, not in the alpine tundra.
You might be wondering if there were any bears around. Well, I hope this answers your question. We have never seen so much bear sign before. It almost seemed like every five feet there was a pile of berry-filled bear poop. We actually had one close encounter when a young male grizzly popped up over a ridge about 75 feet from us. He was just strolling along and hadn't even seen us until we both started yelling at it. Then it whipped its head around, took one look at us waving our arms at it, and bolted off up the ridge in the opposite direction. If anyone ever tells you that it's possible to outrun a grizzly, point at them and laugh. This bear covered in 15 seconds what would have taken us about 45 minutes to climb!