I won’t have a lot to say tonight, most will just be pictures. That is the only way to show Denali. Today was not a good day to see the mountain. It was covered with clouds most of the day, however when I got home and looked at the pictures on the larger screen of the computer I got a wonderful surprise. One picture I took that I thought was just clouds wasn’t. I am going to start off with the pictures of the mountain even though we were the closest to it just before we turned around and started back. The first picture is a picture of a picture. I just wanted you to see what the mountain would look like on a clear day.
Yes folks those are pretty big mountains in the front but they “ain’t nothin” compared to what is behind them. This picture shows the heights of the mountains.
Now for the surprise I got.
If you look close you will see this isn’t all clouds, the mountain is peeking through. I just wish we could have seen it in all it’s glory. Oh well, maybe another day. The second thing the Park is about is wildlife and we got to see quite a bit. Our bus driver said we had an exceptional day and not to tell everyone to expect the same. Oh, I hadn’t told you yet but you can only drive a car into the park 13 miles. You have to buy a ticket to ride a bus into the rest of the park. The road goes in a total of 90 miles and they have different priced tickets depending on how far you go in. We went in 66 miles to the Eielson Visitor Center. This was an eight hour tour and cost $30.75 each. The first 1 1/2 hours I was very disappointed. It wasn’t exceptionally pretty, but of course you get spoiled in a hurry up here, and there wasn’t any wildlife, but before the day was over that changed. We saw lot of beautiful country.
Lots of Dall Sheep.
Should I put this one under sheep or beautiful scenery?
Oh, did I mention the bears and the moose. I didn’t even take pictures of the caribou after our trip north.
That last picture is of 3 bears sleeping on a section of snow that hasn’t melted.
There is one more thing and then I will quit. At the Eielson Visitor Center they had a quilt on display that beats anything I have ever seen in a quilt. Each piece started out as white cloth and was painted, dyed, or drawn to make a picture of the mountain.
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