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To: abuelita who wrote (27952)	8/1/2003 7:02:07 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 104191

It was a subtle way of telling everybody else :-) Saw hundreds of old insulators up there, along the railroad tracks. One of our train ladies told us the clear were worth 5-10 bucks, and the blue ones are $50-100. Some industrious person could go up there, spend 2 days hiking part of the track, and make enuf money to pay for the trip. No burma shave signs, tho. Fuzzette's dad

To: abuelita who wrote (27952)	8/1/2003 7:39:28 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104191

More memories, than adventures, I'd say. I found mice elf wishing that either Dusty or Clappy was there, 'cuz I certainly don't have the words, and pictures will never do it justice, either. It's an experience; you have to be there. The good thing is that, no matter when somebody goes up there, they will get their own experience, because the place is so dynamic, changing constantly. For starters, the overall impression is the same one I came back with last time. Alaska is huge, much too big to comprehend. Denali NP is bigger than Mass, the Municipality of Anchorage (?county), which has 300K people and half the state's population, is bigger than Del. They like to tell Texans, and everybody else, that, if they cut themselves in half, Texas would be the third largest state in the country. It's the way this whole mudball looked 6 billion people ago. How good was it, and how lucky were we? We watched the sun set on Denali. That is SO rare. Most people who go there never see it, because it creates it's own weather, and gets a cloud cover. We came around the corner, probably the one where Radar and I first tried to spot it, and Boom, not a cloud in the sky, over the mountain, at least. Our bus was the last one in that night, and we were out late enuf to see the sun set on her, turning the snow pink and orange. How lucky were we? We got to Denali Mon.afternoon. We were supposed to take a 3 hour tour Tues morning, so I had planned to upgrade to the 6 hours version, if possible. The tour desk said we should just take the park shuttle, which was a cheaper way of doing it. OK; so Alaska had storms Sun, in the interior, with flooding. The rivers were raging,there was a constant drizzle, and we drove thru a small river crossing the road on the way up. In short, it was just like home. That evening, we watched the sunset on the mountain. One ranger apparently said it was the best they had seen her in 12 years. We didn't see a lot of wildlife on the trip; mostly the anntennabou, several walking up the road ahead of us. One moose, way off, which seemed to satisfy Fuzzette, which satisfied me. The only bears we saw were stuffed, in hotels; she didn't seem to mind not seeing them, and she has watched bears raid beehives, so the wildlife part really didn't matter. The tour we were supposed to be on saw nothing, 'cuz it started to rain again Tuesday. That's how lucky we were. We came around the corner, I just looked up at the ceiling of the bus, and said "Thank you". How lucky were we? Neither of us said that it was the highlight of the trip. Rat