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  • On the train in Alaska, 2009
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  • Welcome to North Pole, AK
  • Merry Christmas to all and to all, a good night!
  • Here it is!
  • To our friends, Bruce and Cindy: Thanks for inviting us to join you on this great adventure! It was sensational!!
  • Native lean-to with opening in the middle for a fire
  • Sod roofed cabin.
  • Birch bark canoe
  • A young Eskimo woman discusses the varous fur pelts used by the native people for dress and shelter. Holding a wolverine pelt. Beaver and wolf to her right. Coyote, fox, otter, ermine to her left.
  • Getting ready to stop at the "native village"
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  • Native pelt lodge
  • Bark-walled shelter
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  • Replica of a trappers line cabin. Built along the trap lines one day's travel apart
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  • Replica of a trapper's wife
  • Authentic parka. Mostly muskrat with wolverine around the face and a "sunburst" of wolf.
  • Beadwork is traditional to her clan
  • Native tunic
  • Native dress and moccasins
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  • Fish trap with salmon steaks hung to dry
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  • Replica of a settlers cabin at the visitor's center
  • Statue honoring Alaska's settlers
  • But first, spend an hour in our gift shop
  • Dropped at the Fairbanks city park for lunch
  • Wake up! Time to ride the riverboat.
  • A real stern wheeler
  • Day 13: Gateway to North Pole
  • Viewing a film on park history at the visitors center
  • These sled dogs were larger and heavier than the racing sled dogs we saw in the Yukon. These are used by the park rangers for winter patrol
  • It was a long day
  • Though we didn't see bears or the mountain, experiencing the beauty and vastness of Denali was wonderful
  • Day 12
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  • A long day. Up on the bus at 5:20 for our tour and back to the hotel at 3:00 pm
  • Looking pretty chipper all things considered
  • This is the photo you get when you don't have a window seat.
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  • Check out the hiker in the river bed
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  • Just happy to be able to experience this.
  • Do you hear that whistle down the line? I recon that it's engine number 49
  • I'm beginning to really really believe that my photo requests are taking a toll on their patience
  • Day 11: On our way to the train that will take us to Denali National Park
  • "Tell me again about the mountain, Cindy. Do you promise that we'll see it?"
  • A rare fireweed photo
  • Good beer, great labels
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  • Kind of looks like a painting; soft and out of focus.
  • My most frequent view
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  • Clickity clack, clickity clack
  • Crossing the trestle
  • How's about some cards to break the monotony??
  • Guess who won
  • At this point Mary and I sensed we were in trouble
  • Cindy, correctly recognizing that this is black bear, fights for her life while Bruce, incorrectly thinking it to be a brown bear, attempts to appear dead by looking like a J. Crew ad
  • Unusual monolith poking out of the valley floor
  • Come on. kid, the first one's free.
  • Arrived at last at the Denali Princess Hotel, Mary finds herself on the horns of a dead llama. No, it's a moose.
  • This hotel has a river too
  • Grandma's gone hunting
  • The Talkeetna River runs behind the hotel
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  • "Help me!" Bruce is ensnared in a web of tourist-eating moss.
  • Adding to the cairn
  • "Do you think if we just stare at him long enough he'll go away?"
  • Let's take a walk. Maybe we'll see a bear. Hey, you with the camera, go on ahead
  • Climbing "picture rock"
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