Tag : Wrangell St Elias
Peavine Bar is a wild valley in the Wrangell St Elias National Park situated 20 minutes by air from McCarthy. It is one of the few places within the park where a public cabin is available. Most of them work on the « first arrived first serve » basis, and all of them can only be reached by air. We chose this place to be sure to be able to enjoy a trip under a roof, as two cabins are available …
From 1908 to 1938, the town of Kennicott was home to the biggest copper ore mine in the world, with more than $200 millions of ore extracted from the river and the mountain. During all these years, drinking and gambling were forbidden in the town, making the nearest town around, McCarthy, the place were all workers went to have a good time after working hours with saloons, restaurants and hotels.
[ Kennicott old copper mine / Ancienne mine de …
The towns of McCarthy and Kennicott are home to the Kennicott glacier and river, and are also the two most visited places of the Wrangell St Elias National Park. The glacier pours down from Mount Blackburn, absorbs the Root Glacier and passes the old copper-mining town of Kennicott until McCarthy. It has collected centuries of moraine that covered few miles of ice at his end, as you can see on the first picture of this post. Impressive !
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Going to the McCarthy entrance of the Wrangell St Elias National Park from Anchorage means having a very long drive through the Glennallen & Richardson highways and then through the « famous » McCarthy road. Unlike the southern ones, these roads are not busy at all, so anybody who wants to drive and feel alone in the middle of nowhere in Alaska has to drive through it. The landscapes are really great as you can see huge rivers and canyons, glaciers, …
Alaska, what is Alaska ? It is the 49th state of the USA, and the largest one : more than 3 times bigger than France. When French people think of Alaska, they always think of cold, icy and snowy landscapes. But what they don’t know is that as other coastal Northern countries, Alaska has also cool summers. Indeed, temperature is around 15°C, which is good enough for outdoor trips like hiking, wild camping, wildlife viewing…
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