Ron had a flight to Mt. McKinley to land on a glacier. We departed from a small strip in Healy (11 Miles north) in a 9 passenger Beaver. We flew south down the Nenana river valley passing over our resort and the Denali Park entrance. We continued SW over the Alaska Range and toward Mt McKinley. The views were fantastic and the vistas grand. The flight took us past multiple smaller glaciers, gigantic granite spires and braided glacier river valleys.
The landing site was tucked into an upper corner of the massive Ruth's Glacier. The surrounding peaks appeared to be close enough to touch, however, they were 3-5 miles away. We got out and tromped around in the snow, took some photos and basically stood in awe at the scene. Everything is on such a grand scale it is difficult to take it all in and even more difficult to describe. I did take a few photos and although they look good they do little justice to the actual thing (click the photo above for more).
The weather on the return was bit dramatic with thunder storms causing us to divert around lighting and rain. The thermals over the Alaska Range put several of our heads into the overhead...no damage and we returned safe and sound.
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