The landscape there was very curious. Most national parks we've been to so far have been heavily wooded with lots of trees... DNP wasn't like that at all. It was wide open with low brush. It made the mountains standout more which was pretty cool.
For those of you who are confused, one of the reason's we came to Alaska is because last year we both read John Krakauer's book Into the Wild about recent college grad who went to Alaska to live in the wild. He chose the Stampede Trail as his final destination, and eventually died there. The trail starts at the end of this road. If we would have had time and a local guide, we would have loved to go out to where he was. (If you don't know about this, and are interested but not a reader, Sean Penn made a movie about it last year... but the book is better).
We were on our way to the Elisen Center, the first place in the park you can get a great view of Denali (which Alaskans call Mt. McKinley, and rightfully so considering how it came to be called Mt. McKinley - which we now think they should change back to Denali).
Well, that's all we have from Denali. We did like the pictures we took, but it was cloudy and rainy the whole time, so we didn't get any that really captured the park. Although, on the way down to Anchorage, we saw a glimpse of Denali from 150 miles away. I guess the mountain decided to clear up a little and give us a glimpse of how huge it is that you can see it from Anchorage.
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i like the foret-me-nots nell... and i can't believe ya'll saw the sign post forest.. we left an AR plate there! the photography is getting way impressive....laurels not the only one with talent in that fam. ( way to take the cam away from vail :) kidding.. miss you guys!
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