The Denali Experience
Denali National Park - On our Alaska trip we added an extension giving
us five days at the end of the road running through the park - a five
hour bus, 95 mile trip on a dirt road through the heart of its immediately
accessible portion. Without a special photographers’ permit extremely
hard to obtain, access is by lodge bus or shuttle bus making stops on demand and
running on a set schedule. The weather remained cloudy throughout our
stay and we never saw the top 6000 feet of Mt. McKinley (Denali in
native language and reference). A flightseeing trip took us only
to
cloud cover at 14,000 feet for an exciting although disappointing close up of the
mountain’s many faces and the glaciers continually moving continually
towards to water. From the air, the effects of global warming become
frighteningly apparent as so many of them are obviously melting back
while others actually continue to grow.
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