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 of the mountains surrounding McKinley, saw the Ruth Glacier and Don Sheldon Amphitheatre and the Kahiltna base camp (a few tents, no climbers in sight). I won't try to explain more, I'll just post the pics and that should do it :) We hung out in Talkeetna, about 150 miles N of Anchorage and just before the entrance
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