Alaska Hiking - Kenai to Denali, July 12-23, 2018

Page Five - Final hikes and Alaska Railroad


After we returned from the Mt. Denali Park road trip,
that is referred to as the North American safari,
we did a short hike on the edge of the
Park called Triple Lakes trail.


The second lake. We did not go to the third.


Frazier, one of the tour guides, photographed
me photographing the lake.


The final day of hiking we hiked the Sugarloaf Mountain trail.
This a view of the highway that leads to the National Park
as seen from the trail.


Interesting rock formations on the hike. We were heading to
the area in the background. The trail was steep in sections.
Especially coming back down, we had to be careful because of
loose scree and the steepness.


Looking toward the Park


Looking toward the National Park


Lunch stop


Jeff


Some of our group having difficulty with the scree


View looking back while we were heading down
a different ridge than we had come up on.


Another view looking back. You can see the trail in the
foreground that went between the rocks.


At the train depot in Denali the next morning.
We took the Alaska Railroad from Denali National Park back to
Anchorage, about a 7.5 hour ride.


View from the train just after leaving the depot


Again, we saw Mt. Denali clearly from the train.


Mt. Denali in the distance

Swans in the marsh on the train
ride to Anchorage


The train had some dome cars above the regular cars.


Final view of Mt. Denali before getting back to Anchorage around
8pm. We stayed overnight at the Lakefront Anchorage and
flew back to Denver the following afternoon.

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