Wednesday, August 25, 2010

the family visits...

This week I'm lucky to have a week off from work - and lucky because my parents and brother are visiting from 'the outside' (or, the lower 48). We drove to Talkeetna on Sunday and then took the train north to Denali. After staying there for two nights, we made our way back south and are back in Anchorage now. I'm not going to write too much about what we did, but I'll post some pictures here:
Zach and I walk down main street in Talkeetna
after eating breakfast at "The Roadhouse"


Mom and Dad on board the Midnight Sun Express


Passing over Hurricane Gulch - unfortunately you can't
see the 296 ft. drop down to the Chulitna River


Inside Denali National Park on Monday

Celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary by hiking in the park -
we ended up getting rained on a bit, but it was still a lot of fun


Being Caribou for a day

That's where Denali is supposed to be, but it is covered by clouds, a pretty common occurrence


Outside "The Bake" in Denali

Southbound train rolling into Denali Depot

Mom and Dad watch "Animal" the brakeman hop off the train
and manually throw a switch so we can pull onto a siding


The weather cooperated on our way south and the mountain came out from behind the clouds - looks like Zach is getting a pretty good picture

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