Alaska impressions 5

Ansel Adams was given an assignment to photograph Mount Denali (it was called Mount McKinley back then) for the Alaska Department of Tourism. He spent more than a month in the park and only got to see the mountain three times.

We spent three days in the park. We also got to see it three times. We totally lucked out! It was clear skies and 82 degrees (what they call a heat wave in Alaska).


A mother moose with two cubs was hanging out the visitor center:


On a hike one evening, I got a clear view of two caribou across a creek:


Both male and female caribou wear horns, and both lose them by the winter:


In the spring, caribou channel almost 40% of their bone mass into growing new horns:


Arctic Ground Squirrel again:




Another moose that I came across on another hike:




A Mew Gull dive-bombing a dog that came too close to its nest:


Exit Glacier in Seward, AK:


The blue color is the color of deep ice in the crevices:




Mount Denali: