Biking in the Shadow of Giants

Three days on Alaska’s Denali Highway

Our sag wagon where folks slept and ate when not biking.

Two weeks before the solstice in Alaska, the days are virtually unending. We took advantage of the sun-filled days to bike across the Denali highway from Paxson to Cantwell, a 135-mile gravel-and-rock road that passed some of the most spectacular mountain vistas I have seen in Alaska. I drove the sag wagon — our sprinter van and the car with the bicycle rack, offering a…