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| Sketch of Mt. Denali from Eielson visitor center |
This month friends of ours in Alaska invited Linda and I up
for a grand Alaska adventure. This was a truly unprecedented opportunity to see
the real Alaska with good friends from a unique perspective, they had won the
Denali Road Lottery. Each September the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska hosts a four-day event called the
"Road Lottery." During these four days, winners of the lottery
drawing are given a rare day-long permit, allowing winners to drive personal
vehicles the length of the 92-mile Denali Park Road. Routine travel in the park
with private autos is prohibited and with exception of the Road Lottery
visitors must use buses operated by a concessionaire to travel the park.
We started our grand Alaska adventure by visiting and
hiking the Matanuska Glacier and jumping on the Denali Highway for a 135 mile
journey along some of the most pristine and wild country anyone could image.
Denali Highway is lightly traveled, mostly gravel road with a posted speed
limit of 30 mph and is just a spectacular drive. Traveling this you get a real feel
for the wildness and immensity of Alaska, and ending at Denali National Park you're treated to “the Great One” Mount Denali.
A place to remind you of the vastness and grandeur in nature and take you on a transcendent journey into the sublime.
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Mount Denali photographed at Reflection Pond in the
Wonder Lake
area within Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska (9/15/13).
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Explore - Question - Learn - - Enjoy, Jim
