September Denali Trip, Part 5

More Denali Pictures are here for your midweek enjoyment!

Once we reached Kantishna, which is literally the end of the road, we finally ate our lunch in front of the landing strip. The sandwiches from the little gas station in town were suprisingly good (and still cold) by the time we got around to eating them, which was nice! At the end of the road there, it was pretty quiet at this point in the year, but there are many lodges there that you can stay at if you'd like. Certainly it is a beautiful place that you could certainly use as a base camp for hiking/etc for a week or two.

On our way back, we got to see how the light changes everything we'd already seen, and we had a chance to take more photos. Here is a tree at the reflection pond:


In particular, I wanted to get some shots of the beautiful ponds that we had passed on our way to Wonder Lake:



Here's an interesting one of a "Double Tree" also near Wonder Lake:




Here's one that worked well, with the mountains in the background and the yellow bushes in the foreground:


In this one, I fiddled with the K factor on my SLR, which makes everything a bit red:


Here's another good use of the K factor to get some interesting colors:


But that's enough for today...tomorrow (hopefully) I'll explain that bear paw print and we'll see some moose!