Wrangell Mountain Air - Flying Alaska
Flying over Alaska on a Cessna 206 from Chitina to McCartny and return.
Wrangell Mountain Air.
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McCarthy-Kennicott, Alaska
Recorded July 18, 2000. McCarthy is 120 miles northeast of Cordova at the foot of the Wrangell Mountains. It is connected to the outside world via the McCarthy Road spur (58-mile gravel road) of the Edgerton Highway to Chitina, and must be passed through to reach Kennicott, a destination of tourists seeking access to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Kennicott is an abandoned mining camp in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for several copper mines. The camp and mines are now a National Historic Landmark District administered by the National Park Service.
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John Denver ~ The Wrangell Mountains ~ Baz
The Wrangell Mountains are a high mountain range of eastern Alaska in the United States.
Most of the range is included in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve.
The Wrangell Mountains are almost entirely volcanic in origin, and they include the second and third highest volcanoes in the United States, Mount Blackburn and Mount Sanford.
The range takes its name from Mount Wrangell, which is one of the largest Andesite shield volcanoes in the world, and also the only presently active volcano in the range. The Wrangell Mountains comprise most of the Wrangell Volcanic Field, which also extends into the neighboring Saint Elias Mountains and the Yukon Territory in Canada.
The Wrangell Mountains are just to the northwest of the Saint Elias Mountains and northeast of the Chugach Mountains, which are along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska.
These ranges have the combined effect of blocking the inland areas from warmer moist air over the Pacific Ocean.
The inland areas to the north of the Wrangell Mountains are therefore among the coldest areas of North America during the winter.
The Wrangell Mountains Song, Alaska. (sound track take from A live Performance)
(As far as I can tell the images I have used are all of the Wrangell Mountains Alaska)
John Denver ~ Wrangell Mountains ~
Sunday and it's rainin' in Alaska
Seven days, I haven't seen the sun
Flyin' bush, flyin' low along the shore line
Doin' everything I can to make it home
I can't wait to see the Wrangle Mountain
I can't wait to do what I will do
Honey, did I never say how time goes by so slowly
When I can't wait to get back home to you
Three years from the war and settled down now
I did my time and served my country well
In the freedom I defended I fly beneath the North Star
And I just don't know a better way to feel
I can't wait to see the Wrangle Mountain
I can't wait to do what I will do
Honey, did I never say how time goes by so slowly
When I can't wait to get back home to you
It's a quiet life out here among the mountains
In a cabin that was built with these two hands
Mccarthey lies asleep beside the Glacier
It's colder now, winter's in the air
If you think they're wild it's just because they can't be broken
It's a strong and gentle people living there
I can't wait to see the Wrangle Mountain
I can't wait to do what I will do
Honey, did I never say how time goes by so slowly
When I can'? T wait to get back home to you
Words and music by John Denver, this song appears on the albums:
Spirit (1976) also on the album Autograph (1980) and on the compilation album Voice Of America
(1993) - also known as The Wrangell Mountains Song.
Day 41: rough McCarthy Road + bush plane
Day 41 of our North America Journey. Filmed 07. August 2007. Rough conditions on McCarthy Road in Wrangell St. Elias National Park and a bush plane start, Alaska, USA. Filmed by / © BLOG.PETAFLOP.DE ---
Multi day hike thru Wrangell St. Elias In Alaska
Multi day hike thru Wrangell St. Elias In Alaska. Air dropped with Wrangell Mountain Air into the wilderness this group finds their way through pristine wilderness and natural beauty.
Kennicott & Fireweed Mountain
Fireweed mountain, rising from the Western edge of the Kennicott glacier, is notably located directly across from the Kennicott mine. Now that the mine has been in existence for over 100 years, locals can reflect, and reference old photographs, to compare how the scenery has changed.
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Root Glacier Ice Tunnel- McCarthy, Alaska (Storytelling)
• Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (National Geographic Trails Illustrated Map)
• Hiking in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
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Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and national preserve managed by the National Park Service in south central Alaska. The park and preserve was established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.[3] This protected area is included in an International Biosphere Reserve and is part of the Kluane/Wrangell–St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park and preserve form the largest area managed by the National Park Service in the United States by area with a total of 13,175,799 acres (20,587.186 sq mi; 53,320.57 km2), an expanse that could encapsulate a total of six Yellowstone National Parks.[4] The park includes a large portion of the Saint Elias Mountains, which include most of the highest peaks in the United States and Canada, yet are within 10 miles (16 km) of tidewater, one of the highest reliefs in the world. Wrangell–St. Elias borders on Canada's Kluane National Park and Reserve to the east and approaches the U.S. Glacier Bay National Park to the south. The chief distinction between park and preserve lands is that sport hunting is prohibited in the park and permitted in the preserve. In addition, 9,078,675 acres (3,674,009 ha) of the park are designated as the largest single wilderness in the United States.
Wrangell–St. Elias National Monument was initially designated on December 1, 1978, by President Jimmy Carter using the Antiquities Act, pending final legislation to resolve the allotment of public lands in Alaska. Establishment as a national park and preserve followed the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980. The park, which is bigger than the country Switzerland, has long, extremely cold winters and a short summer season. It supports a variety of large mammals in an environment defined by relative land elevation. Plate tectonics are responsible for the uplift of the mountain ranges that cross the park. The park's extreme high point is Mount St. Elias at 18,008 feet (5,489 m), the second tallest mountain in both the United States and Canada. The park has been shaped by the competing forces of volcanism and glaciation. Mount Wrangell is an active volcano, one of several volcanoes in the western Wrangell Mountains. In the St. Elias Range Mount Churchill has erupted explosively within the past 2,000 years. The park's glacial features include Malaspina Glacier, the largest piedmont glacier in North America, Hubbard Glacier, the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska, and Nabesna Glacier, the world's longest valley glacier. The Bagley Icefield covers much of the park's interior, which includes 60% of the permanently ice-covered terrain in Alaska. At the center of the park, the boomtown of Kennecott exploited one of the world's richest deposits of copper from 1903 to 1938, exposed by and in part incorporated into Kennicott Glacier. The mine buildings and mills, now abandoned, compose a National Historic Landmark district.
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Chitina Alaska High Bridge 2018
Super Cub Rally Alaska 2014
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Alaska Backpacking Trip Go Pro 2016
Our second adventure together in Alaska - August 2016. It was an amazing trip with backpacking, glacier viewing, bear encounters, fishing, and of course, the amazing food. This trip of a lifetime will never be forgotten. ENJOY!
Alaska 2015 Backpacking & hiking Steamboat Hills outside of McCarthy, AK
Trekking in Wrangell-St.Elias National Park in Alaska, USA.
This video follows the three of us with our guide Emily Escapule (from Trek Alaska) as we enjoy the Steamboat Hills five-day guided trip. You start in McCarthy, AK and take a bush plane into the Wrangell-St.Elias National Park. From the remote mountain top landing strip you backpack and setup a base camp. From camp you adventure out on a day hikes until it is time to move camp and continue exploring other areas. If you are fortunate you will be picked up in 5 days. If the weather has other plans then you get an extended trip at no extra cost! This is how we enjoy seeing Alaska!
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McCarthy Road - Alaska, United States
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Mccarthy Road Alaska
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Travel blogs from McCarthy Road:
- ... Compared to McCarthy Road, it is described as The Road Less Traveled ...
- ... Just past the hamlet of Chitina, the McCarthy Road starts ...
- ... The drive was an adventure, and the road much better than the more heavily travelled McCarthy Road in the southern part of Wrangell-St ...
- ... The shuttle ride in, over this McCarthy Road, is a spine re-aligning three hour trip; the highlight is a 525' long railroad bridge that towers ...
- ... At the car we stowed all of our soaking wet outer layers and headed back down McCarthy Road for home ...
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Photos from:
- McCarthy, Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States
- Palmer, Alaska, United States
Photos in this video:
- - start of McCarthy Road by Lobo from a blog titled Wrangell - Saint Elias National Park- Part 1 of 4
- Einfahrt zur McCarthy Road by Swissbear from a blog titled McCarthy
- - the end of McCarthy Road by Lobo from a blog titled Wrangell - Saint Elias National Park - Part 2 of 4
- Moose along McCarthy Road by 2jgstl from a blog titled Wrangell-St. Elias National park
- McCarthy Road by Wecusa from a blog titled Musk Ox Land
RV Alaska Series #13 | Hiking Root Glacier Wrangell St Elias National Park
Class A Motorhome RV Living: Season 3 EP054 July 20, 2018 Get more of our stuff at
In this episode, we cross off another bucket list item and go hiking out onto Root Glacier.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park is not only the largest national park in the United States, it offers a rare opportunity to hike on a glacier. Root Glacier and Kennecott Glacier are both accessible, but an easier hike is to the Root Glacier.
It was an amazing day with a fun ending, as we join the pack rafters in McCarthy, for their opening kickoff to their annual pack rafting event.
We hope you enjoy coming along for the ride! Paul & Lorena
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Driving the road to McCarthy/Kennicott, Alaska.
You've heard stories about it. Perhaps you've even driven it yourself. An epic road trip in a very Alaskan sort of way. Check it out!
Knik Glacier, Alaska
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McCarthy Road
Drive to the McCarthy Road from Chitina to McCarthy.
Tail Gate Alaska 2017
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Alaska Backpacking - Part 2 - Flightseeing Video
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Wrangell St Elias Wilderness
On this trip, Yosemite, Josh and I took a bush plane with Wrangell Mountain Air 30 miles into the wilderness. We were dropped off at the Skolai Passwhere we camped and did day hikes for a few days. If you like glaciers, waterfalls, mountains and solitude, this is the spot.
The Wrangell Mountains - Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska
A winter sunset view of the Wrangell Mountains, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park & Preserve. The Wrangell Mountain Range in eastern Alaska are almost entirely volcanic. Mt Blackburn and Mt Sanford are 2 of the tallest volcanoes in the US. The Wrangell Mountains jumble together with the St. Elias Mountain Range, the Chugach Mountain Range and part of the Alaska Range in Wrangell - St. Elias National Park to form some of the most rugged and spectacular mountain landscapes in the United States.
This view is from Willow Lake, on the Richardson Highway, just south of Glennallen, Alaska. The mountains are, in order of appearance:
Mt Drum - 12 011'
Mt Snyder - 8 250'
Mt Sanford - 16 237'
Mt Zanetti - 13 009'
Mt Wrangell - 14 163'
Mt Blackburn - 16 390'
= 80 060' of mountain.