Up at 4:45 am to get ready for our bus trip. It's overcast and I'm thinking today will be a bust. As we're boarding the bus I'm being a pessimist and everyone is ragging on me for having a lousy attitude. Well the weather proved me wrong as you can see from todays pics. Mt. Mckinley is 20,320 feet tall. The pics are as we drove further and further into the park and of a grizzly and a moose along the way. The final pic of McKinley is from about 17 miles away from the north base near Watson Lake. There were over 1200 permits to climb the mountain this year. There are 100 people still on the mountain but the season (starts in March) is just about over now as the snow/ice gets soft and becomes too dangerous. The sucess rate is 59% this year which they say is high but 2 have died this year.
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