Denali - Top of North America

Driving to Fairbanks we hit the rare event of seeing Denali without clouds.  This is a magnificent sight

A more magnificent sight is Denali at eye level

We are over 20,000 feet and require oxygen.

Jo fully equipped

After we saw the summit, the plane followed a glacier down the slope.

After the plane ride and driving to Fairbanks Jo and I stopped at the Veterans Memorial.  We were there with the SMART group and it touched us to see them react to the Memorial.

Covered all 5 military branches

The next day the SMART (Special Military Active and Retired Travel club) group took a road tour of Denali National park.  Private vehicles can only go in so far before you have to get on a park tour bus.  After seeing the roads in the park we needed a break from these type of roads and were glad for the bus.

Reminds us of the Top of the World highway

We did get to see a lot of "critters" and they showed us who owned the road.