Alaska Trip - Day 8 Part 2

After arriving at Denali and getting of the train, we ate dinner and then went on a four-wheeler tour. Alaska is so far north that it gets a lot of sunlight during the summer, so although we didn't get back to the hotel until after 11 pm, it was still very bright.

From the train. This lake is on the continental divide, it drains both north and south

Four-wheeling

From our hotel

 

Alaska Trip - Day 8

After the seven day cruise we got off the ship for a few days in land. Most of the first day was taken up by a train ride to Denali National Park, which contains Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America.

Turnigate Arm is filled with mud because the rivers which fill it contain Glaciers which deposit glacier silt

Dead trees from the 1964 earthquake

Working on the train

Moose from the train

Glacier

Tunnel

Wild Dall Sheep

Wild Dall Sheep

Beaver Pond