Due to its weather system, summer is oftern cloudy and wet. Imagine you are riding the 8 hours round-trip bus to fish creek (or the 11+ hours to Kantishna), chilly rain, bumpy and gut-wrenching road, wind chill in the 30's, mud covering the bus windows. It would be a very long day.
You can drive a private car the first 15 miles to Savage River, though.
You can drive a private car the first 15 miles to Savage River, though.