Calendar Cover

The cover photo of Mt McKinley was taken along the Parks highway which runs from Anchorage to Denali and Fairbanks. We spent several days in Talkeetna and drove the hundred or so miles to Denali without the trailer on one of those days. We didn't actually take a tour of the park. The only way into the park is by bus tour and the shortest tour was about 4 hours. We didn't feel inclined to spend that much time on a bus that day so instead we drove up to Healy and turned down Stampede Road. That was the road that Chris McCandless took on is ill fated trip to the bus where he died. We drove to the end of the pavement before we turned around.

This is was just one of many places where you can admire Mt McKinley on the way up the Parks highway.

 

This is the view of Mt McKinley from along the river in Talkeetna. It was taken with a telephoto lens which helps it to appear so large from that distance.

This was the view from a hill just outside Talkeetna. The top of Mt McKinley is cover by clouds about 70% of the time. We were very lucky to get all of these nice pictures of it in the few short days that we spent there.