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Alaska’s Kennecott Mine
The Kennecott Mine was once the richest copper mine in the world. It was depleted of profitable ore and finally abandoned in 1938. The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, created in 1980, includes the remains ...
Alaska Landscapes on the way to McCarthy
Driving Alaska, every stretch of road rewards the gaze with another life-affirming landscape. Traveling south on the Richardson Highway from Tok, we saw dark clouds brooding over the increasingly larger mountains of the Wrangells chain. Alaska ...
On the Road (to Alaska, not Jack Kerouac)
Driving to Alaska is an essential roadtrip. Like Kerouac in his famous beat generation novel, “On the Road”, life is about the journey itself. So at Mile Zero of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, British ...
Banff National Park of Canada
We decided to cross the Rocky Mountains in Canada through Banff. Time constraints and cloudy, rainy weather limited our hikes and photo opportunities. In spite of the rain, the views from one minute to the next ...