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62 images Created 22 Apr 2011

Celebrating the majesty, culture, and recreational opportunities of Alaska's Wrangell St-Elias National Park. Shot on assignment for National Parks Magazine.

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  • Carlos Rivera, from Wasilla, joined by his three daughters (front to back) Maia, Juliane and Kristian, filets sockeye salmon caught in the family's fish wheel on the Copper River, near Chitina, Alaska. Parmenter and Liana Welty watch, and would later receive a gift of salmon that would be delicious camp dinner for the next two nights.
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  • Carlos Rivera, from Wasilla, filets sockeye salmon caught in the family's fish wheel on the Copper River, near Chitina, Alaska.
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  • Carlos Rivera and his three daughters (left to right) Juliane, Kristian and Maia wade out to the family's fish wheel on the Copper River, near Chitina, Alaska, to harvest sockeye salmon.
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  • Parmenter Welty uses his fingers as he eats a delicious sockeye salmon filet at a campground on the Copper River near Chitina, Alaska.
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  • The small peaks flanking the Chokosna River valley are reflected in one of the many small lakes encountered on the drive between Chitina and McCarthy, one of only two roads into Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • A car drives the McCarthy Road, swarms of flying insects backlit by the setting sun, in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Liana Welty holds out Boletus mushrooms she picked, with permission, on the grounds of the Alaska Halfway House B&B, in Chokosna, 27 miles up the McCarthy Road into Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska. A historically wet summer in 2010 made for an epic mushroom hunting season.
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  • A sign reads "SLOW Guides at Play" outside the entrance to the St. Elias Alpine Guides headquarters in McCarthy, Alaska.
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  • The historic (and still operating) Ma Johnson's Hotel at twilight in McCarthy, Alaska.
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  • Lindsey Pepper, Bonnie Bzdok and Brian, all three summer employees in McCarthy, Alaska, stay up late at night stargazing in the hopes of seeing the northern lights.
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  • Delicate purple and green Northern Lights in the sky above McCarthy, Alaska.
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  • Clients are led by guide Ben Wilcox up a meltwater canyon on a day trip on the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Water splashes down a small meltwater stream on the surface of the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • The Welty family, decked out in mountaineering crampons on a guided day trip with St. Elias Alpine Guides, explore the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Clients try out ice climbing on a daytrip with St. Elias Alpine Guides to the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Tourists line up to take pictures of the moraines at the toe of the Kennicott Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Tourists put on hard hats in preparation for a tour of the mill building with St. Elias Alpine Guides in Kennecott, Alaska, site of the historic Kennecott Copper Mine.
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  • St. Elias Alpine Guides tour guide Ben Wilcox holds out a sample of copper ore during a tour of the impressive mill building in Kennecott, Alaska, site of the historic Kennecott Copper Mine.
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  • View from the top of the mill building looking up over Kennecott towards the confluence of the Root and Kennicott Glaciers, and nearby Donoho Peak in Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • St. Elias Alpine Guides tour guide Ben Wilcox points enthusiastically during a tour of the impressive mill building in Kennecott, Alaska, site of the historic Kennecott Copper Mine.
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  • Detail of wooden parts used in separating the copper ore as it traveled through the mill building in Kennecott, Alaska, site of the historic Kennecott Copper Mine.
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  • Wells Jones is soaked by spray as the raft hits big water on a guided float down the Nizina River, a day trip out of McCarthy, Alaska.
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  • St. Elias Alpine Guides tour guide Jake Wilkens and clients Brandie Radigan Dicks and J.R. Dicks float down the Nizina River on a guided day trip out of McCarthy, Alaska.
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  • Wrangell Mountain Center staff (and talented musician) Ben Ciampa closes out the weekly Thursday open-mic night at The New Golden Saloon in McCarthy, Alaska to an energetic late-night crowd.
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  • Two tourists are dwarfed by distant Mount Blackburn (4,996 m) as they walk across the surface of the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Parmenter and Liana Welty hike up the lateral moraine on the west side of the Root Glacier on a backpacking trip to Donoho Basin, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Reflections of Mount Blackburn at sunset in a lake in Donoho Basin, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Reflections of black spruce and distant mountain slopes at sunset off a lake in Donoho Basin, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Reflections of distant mountains and lichen-covered boulders at dusk off the shore of a lake in Donoho Basin, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • A tiny alpine plant community grows from a rock island in a lake in Donoho Basin, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Parmenter Welty looks out from under the protection of his mosquito-proof head net during a backpack to Donoho Basin, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Liana and Parmenter Welty hike up a lateral moraine on the Kennicott Glacier side of Donoho Basin in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Parmenter Welty throws trekking poles to his wife Liana at a small but tricky creek crossing in Donoho Basin, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • A dryas (Dryas spp.) going to seed, a plant genus ubiquitous to the sub-alpine and alpine tundra, is rustled by the wind in Donoho Basin, Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Sediment settles out on the bottom of small melt channels on the surface of the ice, forming abstract black and white patterns on the Root Glacier, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Parmenter and Liana Welty explore the dynamic surface of the Root Glacier, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska. Melt channels form on the surface along which sediment is deposited, forming abstract black and white patters in the ice.
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  • Liana Welty navigates a meltwater canyon on the dynamic surface of the Root Glacier, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • The town and mine buildings of Kennecott, Alaska are highlighted at sunset beneath dramatic Bonanza Ridge. The remains of Jumbo Mine (left) and Bonanza Mine, popular dayhiking destinations in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, are just barely visible in the high cirques above the town.
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  • Rachel Saul puts her hand into a pool of meltwater on the surface of the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • St. Elias Alpine Guides tour guide Dan Hernandez prepares climbing gear for clients on an ice climbing day trip to the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Ethan Welty tip toes to the edge of a deep moulin to photograph client Mack F. Pennington ice climbing (for his first time ever) on a day trip with St. Elias Alpine Guides to the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Rachel Saul, visiting from Anchorage, swings her ice tools as she ice climbs (for her first time ever) out of a moulin on a day trip with St. Elias Alpine Guides to the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Rachel Saul, visiting from Anchorage, swings her ice tools as she ice climbs (for her first time ever) out of a moulin on a day trip with St. Elias Alpine Guides to the Root Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Young children play in and on one of the many old abandoned trucks scattered around the town of McCarthy, Alaska.
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  • A young girl plays in one of the many old abandoned trucks scattered around the town of McCarthy, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of the confluence of two rivers with different colorations (due to the difference in sediment transported from each drainage) in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Parmenter and Liana Welty kiss in the rain, dressed in wet rain jackets,  on a backpacking trip in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Parmenter and Liana Welty hike through stormy weather on a backpacking trip in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Parmenter Welty stands thoughtfully below Chitistone Pass (along the Goat Trail) watching mist rise from the wet tundra on a backpacking trip in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Tents are pitched in a beautiful alpine meadow below a dramatic hanging glacier and Chitistone Pass (along the Goat Trail) on a backpacking trip in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Parmenter and Liana Welty walk out to a small rock outcrop below Chitistone Pass to look out over the Skolai River and the tip of the Russell Glacier on a backpacking trip in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Liana Welty reacts to the cold temperature of the water as she wades a small river on a backpacking trip in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Liana Welty celebrates with great relief a successful (but very cold) river crossing on a backpacking trip in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Vivid green mats of moss grow in a dry creek bed in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • View of distant glaciated peaks up the Russell Glacier at sunset on a backpacking trip in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Parmenter and Liana Welty are dwarfed by the massive mountains beyond as they hike along the crest of a lateral moraine hugging the west side of the enormous Russell Glacier on a backpacking trip in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • View of Castle Mountain and the tip of the Russell Glacier in the Skolai Pass area of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Bleached caribou antlers (Rangifer tarandus) on the groud near Skolai Pass, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Backpackers are picked up by a bush plane at the Skolai Pass backcountry airstrip in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of the Chitistone River and Gorge from a Wrangell Mountain Air bush plane flight in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of the enormous Bagley Icefield in the Chugach Range from a Wrangell Mountain Air bush plane flight, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of a drainage network on the surface of the Bagley Icefield in the Chugach Range, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
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