Denali

I’ve got Internet, obviously, but we’re too busy to blog. We got a bonus yesterday, driving up to our B&B outside of the park. We decided to take a side trip to Talkeetna, and happened to stop in to a little gift shop of local Alaskan art, when the proprietor looks up from the phone, and asks us if we’d like to land on a glacier for a hundred bucks each. The plane’s about to leave from the field and they want to fill seats. So we head over there, and hop aboard a DeHavilland Beaver with skis, with a 23-year-old pilot with a philosophy degree, head up into the mountains, and drop down between the ridges onto the ice. Unfortunately, the ceiling was only fifteen thousand feet, so we couldn’t see the big mountain, but the others were pretty spectacular. Pics anon.

4 thoughts on “Denali”

  1. landing on Ruth Glacier is awesome even with less that perfect viz. years ago I was on a work trip, riding along with a corp president who was flying his co plane. it was a totally clear summer day, and we diverted for an hour to fly around Denali. astounding sights.

  2. Did you stay at the Dome Home B&B in Healy? We rented a car from them while we were in the Denali area.

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