Denali!!!

Denali!!!

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June 26th 2007

Published: June 26th 2007

Ok, so this was one of the things I was most looking forward to. We booked a flight to the 20 320' summit of Denali (Mt. McKinley), only to find out the girl who booked us had made a mistake and there was actually NO summit flight that day. We were pretty disappointed but when they offered us an enormous discount we accepted it, we were already there so why not? It was incredible. We toured all o... Read Full Entry

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I don't remember what glacier this was. Maybe North Fork? It was just after the north face of McKinley.

This thing is amazing - it's about 3 vertical miles below McKinley and catches all the snow that falls on the SE side of the mountain. That snow and ice is squeezed through a one mile wide bottleneck of the Great Gorge, which drops nearly 2000ft over 10 miles. The granite cliffs on either side are about 5000ft high and the glacier's ice is about 3800ft deep. The gorge itself is deeper than the Grand Canyon, the glacier moves 3.3 ft a day and up to 4 million pounds of ice can flow into and out of the gorge daily. Crazy.