September 19, 2025
After my disappointment with the limited views at the various Denali Viewpoints I continued north on Highway 3 to get to the National Park entrance, which is about 100 miles away. Here are some of the things I saw along the way:
A rare look at me! I had bought a dark brown hooded sweatshirt to add to my collection for this trip. It was now hunting season and I didn’t want to be mistaken for a brown bear (aka grizzly bear) by either a hunter or a brown bear so I donned my Safety Sam vest for the times I was out of the car taking photos. More importantly it was also Fat Bear Week and I didn’t want to be captured, weighed, tagged and released!
My car was in a parking area and I was up by the main road. This was actually looking back towards the southwest.
More snow-covered mountains under some low gray clouds.
And a few high peaks with some snow on them not far off the highway:
Below is an old motel called “The Igloo”. There were No Trespassing signs and a chain across the access road, and it looked like it has been abandoned. No wonder, as it is out in the proverbial middle of nowhere… It was built in the 70’s but never opened. There was nothing else around for miles…
The road then opened up a bit and the mountains were further away.
This is looking back from another angle at two mountains shown earlier in this post.
The photos in this part of the post cover about an hour and a half of driving (including stops to take pictures).
(Continued in next post)
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