The high one!!

Here's our first glimpse of Denali ("The High One") or Mt. McKinley as most of us know it.  We were so blessed that day.  You normally only have a 15-20% chance of seeing the mountain but that day it was bright and clear all day.  The pictures below speak for themselves so there's not much I can add.  The next day when we got up to leave it was pouring down rain and we drove in rain for a long ways.

Mt McKinley or Denali

As mentioned in the previous blog we went into Denali National Park while in Alaska. One of the big attractions there is, of course, Mt. McKinley. The problem is that it generates it's own weather so the chances of seeing it is not that good (20-25 % is what they told us) because it's normally covered with clouds. However, on the day we were there it was visible for the whole day. It is so majestic and beautiful. The closest that you get to it on a tour is around 23 miles but it looks like it just 2-3 miles away. I read somewhere that it has the greatest rise of any mountain from it's base to the top. If you really want to see how majestic it really is you need to click on the images to enlarge them. I know I put up several but I couldn't decide which ones to upload and show so I just did a bunch of them.