This was us, stuck on a bus in Denali National Park eight years ago. The steep, winding Polychrome Mountain road had washed out. We waited for five hours inside the old, dusty uniform green bus as sludgy mud was plowed off the one-lane gravel road. We played card games and napped. We took short walks in the cold drizzle. But mostly we sat side-by-side inside the park service vehicle because earlier in the day, a near miss with an enormous…
