Backbends Alaska Style – II

Backbends Alaska Style – II

Here is follow-up to the critically acclaimed and original Backbends Alaska Style. This was all done in concert with this month’s Backbend Challenge…

Mary writes:

We finally made it to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. It is over 13 million acres!  We hiked a smidgen of this fantastic park.

What’s So Special about Wrangell-St. Elias

~ Courtesy of National Park Service ~

Incredible. You must see Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve to believe it. Number and scale loom large here, magnified by splendid isolation. The largest U.S. national park, it equals six Yellowstones, with peaks upon peaks and glaciers after glaciers. Follow any braided river or stream to its source and you will find either a receding, advancing, or tidewater glacier. The park lets you sample representative Alaska wildlife as well as historic mining sites. Hike its mountains, float its rivers, ski its glaciers, or fly over this landscape and you witness living geology. You sense discovery, the feeling you might be the first to see such sights. Read More….