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| Denali: in the Athabascan language, "the High One" |
Even at 20,310 feet, the highest peak in North America, it wasn't just Denali that dazzled. It was the sheer vastness. Mountains that seemed to stretch forever, large swaths of tundra, ribbons of water running through every valley: an endless terrain of majesty.
A picture is worth 1000 words.
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| The beavers were busy... |
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| ...making a series of dams |
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| The Alaska Railroad connects Anchorage to Fairbanks and runs through the park |
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| The metal box was our 'noisemaker" to alert large mammals to our presence... |
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| ...but we only saw small ones |
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| We did see lots of prints and scat, though! |
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| As close to a bear as we would ever want to be |
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| moose nuggets, not the hershey's kind |
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| moose tracks, not the ice cream kind |
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| It's very rare for Denali to be visible; we were incredibly lucky and got treated with multiple views |
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| Still more mountain peaks, above the braided Savage River |
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| It wasn't just "all good", |
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| it was all spectacular! |
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| From the sky, glaciers... |
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| ...and Denali! |
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