Alaskan Vacation photos of Mt McKinley

We left on Aug 14 from Fairbanks Alaska to Anchorage Alaska and than to catch our connection to LAX. Now mind you we Left Fairbanks at 10:20pm and these pictures were taken in the air after that, the sunsets at 10:45pm or later.. 

Seeing Mt. Mc Kinley (Denali ~ which means "great one") is actually very rare due to the cloud cover as it makes it's own weather patterns due to the extreme height of it at 20,328 feet. We saw it once on the train with only a slight amount of clouds at the very top, and then while we were in the airplane on the right side of the airplane heading south out of Fairbanks.  A highlight of many in our trip to Alaska.

The Chena River we were on in Fairbanks just continually wound it's way south with us for 99 miles start to finish in Alaska. As you can see from the pictures I took it has many twists and turns.

 

we are just getting over the Denali National Park area of snow capped moutains.

Just a sunset picture

This is Mt. Mc Kinley (Denali) clear as can be hoped for viewing and we are above it~!

The sun setting directly over Denali are the reason for the next couple of shots

 

Okay now that is the finality of our Alaskan Vacation and right to the end it was what we had hoped for... thanks for joining us.