I took this photo from a fixed wing airplane...as I'm posing with below. I was with 6 other people and a pilot, all of which were strangers to me. I was a little beyond spoiled to have taken this all in alone. This little jaunt wasn't cheap, but it was worth every penny. We landed on the "Ruth Glacier"....and I grew up knowing about "Mt. McKinley"...my grandma used to paint it when they lived in Alaska, but then? Somewhere in my lifetime McKinley no longer existed and there was a new "tallest mountain in North America"! Or...perhaps we just reverted to calling it "Denali" some where in the 80's! The original name given to the mountain by the Athabascan people! Ha! (Oh....and for when you are next on Jeopardy? Denali means "High One"!
Denali is the peak that crowns the Alaska Range.....and gives it's name to the National Park, established in 1980 by Carter. So this Park? Of stunning beauty and out of the world animal sightings? Just like 6 million acres large. And I LOVE the fact that it's larger than the state of Massachusetts. Ha! It's beyond majestic and certainly points to an Awesome Creator.
So by now, if you don't want to visit Alaska? I can't help you...I'm not a photographer, I just happen to own a camera! So what you see here, is what you'll see there! Lovely lovely lovely!
