With Denali now facing the prospect of being renamed Mount McKinley. .....
As I looked skyward from my office deck on that first day of September, 2014 I watched as Air Force One began its descent here in Alaska. At that same point in time then sitting President Obama was peering out that same airplane’s window to capture a shot of North America’s tallest mountain which he was concurrently stripping of the name it had been known by since 1896 - Mount McKinley.
Now known from that September of 2014 as Denali, the talking point was that this was a restoration of the mountain’s original name. In reality, however, prior to 1896 Mount McKinley had been known by a multitude of names depending on which group was speaking.
Most recent to 1896 the mountain was known as Bolshaya Gora by the Russians who had owned Alaska. Prior to that there was one Alaska Native group, the Koyukon, who called it Deenalee, which is the closest to Obama’s renaming as Denali. However, multiple other Alaska Native Groups had their own names for North America’s tallest mountain. For example the Dena’ina People called the mountain Dghelay Ka’a.
There was one thing in common though for all the names that Denali has shared apart from the name Mount McKinley. They all were simply direct translations of “The Tall, Big, or High One” - a physical description rather than an actual named name as was the case for its naming as Mount McKinley.
Here is a shared video and photos taken within Denali National Park:
UNDER ALASKA'S DENALI NATIONAL PARK'S SENIC MOUNTAINS A MOOSE AMBLES THROUGH THE MORNING MIST
Link dot Video of Moose Ambling Through Denali Park:
Unfortunately, here is the view of the mountain Denali that 80% of the Park's Visitors get to see:
That said, the scenery within the park is spectacular:
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This is a vista that opens up to Polychrome Pass and its Mile 45 overlook which due to a rockslide cannot currently be reached with the road ending at Mile 43.
And this Calendar view is what Polychrome Pass looks like in the Fall if you could reach it:
Here are my photos taken earlier in the year:
And here are photos from closer to the beginning of the road into Denali National Park:
Finally, to bring this full circle, here is the Eielson Visitor Center at Mile 66 from where the first photo was taken. As with Polychrome Pass though it currently remains unreachable due to the aforementioned landslide.
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With Denali now facing the prospect of being renamed Mount McKinley. .....
As I looked skyward from my office deck on that first day of September, 2014 I watched as Air Force One began its descent here in Alaska. At that same point in time then sitting President Obama was peering out that same airplane’s window to capture a shot of North America’s tallest mountain which he was concurrently stripping of the name it had been known by since 1896 - Mount McKinley.
Now known from that September of 2014 as Denali, the talking point was that this was a restoration of the mountain’s original name. In reality, however, prior to 1896 Mount McKinley had been known by a multitude of names depending on which group was speaking.
Most recent to 1896 the mountain was known as Bolshaya Gora by the Russians who had owned Alaska. Prior to that there was one Alaska Native group, the Koyukon, who called it Deenalee, which is the closest to Obama’s renaming as Denali. However, multiple other Alaska Native Groups had their own names for North America’s tallest mountain. For example the Dena’ina People called the mountain Dghelay Ka’a.
There was one thing in common though for all the names that Denali has shared apart from the name Mount McKinley. They all were simply direct translations of “The Tall, Big, or High One” - a physical description rather than an actual named name as was the case for its naming as Mount McKinley.
Here is a shared video and photos taken within Denali National Park:
UNDER ALASKA'S DENALI NATIONAL PARK'S SENIC MOUNTAINS A MOOSE AMBLES THROUGH THE MORNING MIST
Link dot Video of Moose Ambling Through Denali Park:
Unfortunately, here is the view of the mountain Denali that 80% of the Park's Visitors get to see:
That said, the scenery within the park is spectacular:
This is a vista that opens up to Polychrome Pass and its Mile 45 overlook which due to a rockslide cannot currently be reached with the road ending at Mile 43.
And this Calendar view is what Polychrome Pass looks like in the Fall if you could reach it:
Here are my photos taken earlier in the year:
And here are photos from closer to the beginning of the road into Denali National Park:
Finally, to bring this full circle, here is the Eielson Visitor Center at Mile 66 from where the first photo was taken. As with Polychrome Pass though it currently remains unreachable due to the aforementioned landslide.