Month: July 2006

Getting ready to leave Anchorage at 2:10 a.m. on July 23rd, for the 735-mile day. That may seem odd (it certainly did to the hotel desk staff), but that’s when I need to leave to get home at a reasonable hour. A couple of bonuses are that I get...

July 20, 2006: Princess McKinley Lodge to Anchorage – 138 milesI got up just after 3:00 a.m. to see if I could catch the first light on Denali, but was a bit too early, and the light wasn’t good. This shot was taken at 5:50 a.m., with a fog...

July 18, 2006: Fairbanks to Denali National Park – 125 milesI dropped my group off at the Alaska Railroad for their trip to the park, while I went ahead with the motorcoach and got their luggage into their hotel rooms before meeting them at the Denali railroad depot. This...

The sign above the Trans Alaska oil pipeline interpretive site says “Canada my ass, it’s Alaska’s Gas!” – that’s one of the slogans used by the Alaskan Independence Party. It refers to the current controversy about building a natural gas pipeline down the Alaska Highway, which will require paying...

I’ve just returned from my final trip as driver/guide, for a motorcoach tour that took us from Whitehorse, Yukon, to Seward, Alaska, where my group boarded the Celebrity Summit for a cruise back to Vancouver. This was about the 8th trip I’ve done for W. P. Maher Tours of...