Your book will be something to see, Dan. Closest I will ever get to that
lot. Pity you haven't been to Africa - there are Ruwenzori, Kilimanjaro
& Kenya all in E Africa. The glaciers of Kilimanjaro are now almost
non-existent. Nothing to speak of in SA. The Boy Scouts went to
Kilimanjaro from Rhodesia on the back of a 5 ton truck in the 1950's. I
was too young. No organised tours in those days. They were completely
self sufficient & went up & down in 4 days. Nowadays you are forced to
go in organised groups - expensive 8-10 day round trips.
Alan C
On 05-Feb-21 05:51 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
My post a few minutes ago was flagged as being too large. Here is what I
said (without the quotes of prior posts):
Ann, we were at Portage Glacier in late June 1992. Greg's HS graduation
gift was a trip to Alaska. NO cruise ship; 12 landings and take-offs; 4
train trips; two van tours; and two one-day sails, one on Prince William
Sound close and personal to the glaciers and one into the Kenai Fjords,
plus 980 miles in a rental car, three hikes, and a white water raft trip
out of Denali. Lee was teaching Earth Science then, and she wanted to be
north of the Arctic Circle for the summer solstice. We celebrated it on
the shores of the Bering Sea.
We saw the video presentation in the Portage visitor center, after which
they opened the curtains and the glacier was RIGHT THERE. Greg and I
climbed up on it a bit, searching in vain for ice worms. <G> Now, one has
to take a boat from that visitor center across the lake to even glimpse the
glacier! Climate change is a bitch!
We got so close to Blackstone Glacier that the waves from calving ice
tossed our boat about like a toy. Blackstone was (then at least) one of
the few Alaska glaciers that was still growing.
As to Denali (or Mt McKinley), it is usually shrouded in clouds. I had to
argue with the train company and insisted on taking the train both north
from Anchorage to Denali NP and again south back to anchorage. We never
got a clear view of Denali on the way up, or during our three days in the
park, but coming back to Anchorage it was out there in all its glory. Greg
and I went into the space between the cars to get a better photo
opportunity. We got a fairly good image, but nothing to compare with
Stan's!
I am working on a photo book of a collection of my favorite mountains,
including Denali, Fuji, the Matterhorn, the Jungfrau, the Eiger, Mt
Washington, Rainier, Mt St Helens, Devils Tower, and, of course, El Capitan
and Half Dome.
Dan Matyola
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