"The High One"
Denali
or to the white man, Mt McKinley.
(The peak is at the top of the picture in the clouds.)
After Susan and Tim left Kotzebue they flew to Anchorage where we met up with them the next weekend. We traveled up to and into Denali National Park where we spent a total of four nights before returning to Anchorage and doing some touristy type of things there.
Here are just a couple of pictures showing the smoke blanketing Kotzebue from the fires over 300 miles away towards Fairbanks.
Just one more before the month ends.
August 28, 2004
A picture of the Maniilaq fun run/walk as it passes our apartment on a beautiful Saturday with the temps in the 60's.
For problems or questions regarding this web contact
carlo@samsicles.net
Last updated:
08/29/05
/100_5342.JPG)
/100_5265.JPG "An impressive view of the Alaska range.")
/100_5266.JPG "Patty and Susan gazing towards where McKinley hides in the clouds.")
/100_5267.JPG "Just the base of McKinley is visable rising above the Alaska range.")
/100_5270.JPG "Patty by the Overlook Restaurant.")
/100_5273.JPG "\"Tourist Valley\"-my term.")
/100_5278.JPG "Tim relaxing in the Overlook after a great meal.")
/100_5282.JPG "The Overlook.")
/100_5301.JPG "Tim Asleep again. This time we are on the bus into Denali.")
/100_5305.JPG "The first grizzly we saw.")
/100_5308.JPG "A caribou of course.")
/100_5313.JPG "A larger caribou.")
/100_5317.JPG "The signs were lined with nails sticking out to keep the bears from chewing them up.")
/100_5318.JPG "The ribbon of dirt road precariously perched on the mountainsides. This is the only sign of human intervention for miles.")
/100_5320.JPG "The views just went on and on.")
/100_5323.JPG "A happy couple.")
/100_5325.JPG "Our limosine.")
/100_5326.JPG "Another grizzly.")
/100_5332.JPG "A female caribou this time.")
/000_0008.JPG "Yep, another grizzly-getting to be old hat.")
/100_5334.JPG "The road traveling this vast unspoiled landscape.")
/100_5340.JPG "Patty and Cathy getting ready to reboard after a chance to stretch the legs.")
/100_5351.JPG "Blueberries")
/100_5355.JPG "Carlo and Cathy by the stream by Denali Backcountry Lodge.")
/100_5356.JPG "The main lodge and the lecture house.")
/100_5359.JPG "Cathy on a suspension bridge over the river.")
/100_5366.JPG "Playing cards in the gazebo while Susan and Tim take a flightseeing tour of McKinley.")
/100_5381.JPG "Sunset in Denali National Park. Taken by Patty.")
/100_5384.JPG "Patty on our fishing excursion.")
/100_5389.JPG "Darned southerners-that's a glacial lake!")
/100_5396.JPG "More berries.")
/100_5401.JPG "Cranberries")
/100_5407.JPG "The sun setting into the clouds along a mountain ridge.")
/100_5408.JPG "Enjoying a game of spades in the gazebo.")
/100_5409.JPG "Suzy enjoying her book.")
/100_5413.JPG "Morning mist in the park.")
/100_5420.JPG "A female moose browsing for breakfast.")
/100_5437.JPG "A grizzly crossing the road by the bus.")
/100_5438.JPG "Minding it's own buisness.")
/100_5443.JPG "The girls have just landed.")
/100_5444.JPG "Salmon in a spawning stream no more than 8 minutes from our house in Anchorage.")
/100_5445.JPG "A closer view.")
/100_5449.JPG "The big one is a Chinook and the smaller ones are I think pinks.")
/100_5450.JPG "Tim looking over Potters Marsh and the spawning salmon.")
/100_5452.JPG "A view along Turnagain Arm on the Seward Highway about 15 minutes from our home.")
/100_5458.JPG "A hanging glacier along the highway.")
/100_5460.JPG "Sisters Patty and Suzy.")
/100_5467.JPG "Just a note about the local bruins.")
/100_5470.JPG "More spawning salmon further down the Seward Highway.")
/100_5473.JPG "Patty waiting to see the tide come in.")
/100_5478.JPG "Not a large wave but noticable nevertheless.")
/100_5481.JPG "Patty at the Double Musky restaurant close to Alyeska Ski Resort about a 25 minute drive from our house.")
/100_5482.JPG "Suzy swears she got a half a cow but oh so good!")
/100_5484.JPG "Our home and truck in Anchorage.")
/100_5485.JPG "The view towards town over the back bay.")
/100_5486.JPG "Looking towards Swan Lake with the far shore blanketed by smoke.")
/100_5489.JPG "The smoke did make for incredible sunrises though.")
/100_5491.JPG)