rainy hike arround troublesome creek in Denali Park....

troublesome creek.....

mt. mckinnley

snow and hail about 35 degrees

we made it, troublesome creek where he died. the current and cold did him in...

we wanted to get out of anchorage for the day and was heading for a place called hatchers pass. it's just a bunch of old gold mines there now, but alot of locals up here snow board there. but anyhow, the road was closed do to avalanche danger so we couldn't go. we would of tried but there was to many police arround. so we decided to just drive a little further to denali park, mt. mckinnley. ( the largest mountain in north america. 104 people have died in this park in the past 2 years. very dangerous place to be roaming arround if you don't know what your doing. but anyhow, some frinds and i have hiked this park from all angels and we're pretty comfortable there heading out and about. we wanted to hike troublesome creek. this creek creates it's own weather pattern because mt. mckinnley feeds it. so what happens up there will take only minutes to get to us. as you can see by the pics over the creek. you can see where it floods almost every day. but anyhow we risked our lives and made it before the rain storm that moved it turned our day very wrong!!! sorry mom!!! it was raining. snowing, hailing, ect. so of coarse my batteries died in my camera and this is all i got for pics. so all we could do is build a fire, make shelter and lay low for a while. it only lasted about 2 hours though. good thing the sun doesn't go down really this time of year. but to top it all off i almost got seriously screwed by the park ranger for drivng off the road a little bit when we were leaving. denali park is very protected! and it should be! but anyhow, i moved a boulder so we could get the truck closer to the river head. the park ranger just made me move the truck and place this big rock back. aparently he knew moving that boulder was more then enough punishment. i won't do that again..........