to valdez

We slept in a bit and woke up to the sound of the helicopter bringing in supplies to the lodge. We drove the rest of the Denali Highway and then continued south to Valdez where we are tonight.
Along the way we fished and saw various sights. Fishing wasn't good. Only caught a few dinkers. We saw plenty of great mountain views, though...and some of the rivers are crazy looking. They have lots of glacial powder so they are grey/milky/thick. pretty bizarre...no fishies in these ones. many of the mountains are super jaggedy. i was thinking, in one day i've probably seen as many jaggedy peaks as i've seen in the tetons, olympic NP, N Cascades, Wind rivers, and glacier NP combined. So many glaciers up here. we saw one way cool one. it was called worthington glacier. we also saw numerous waterfalls.We also drove down the east side of Wrangell-St Elias NP. there are some sweet looking mountains there, too. there were some monsters we saw rising above everything else. all snow-capped. the wrangells have all of the next highest peaks behind denali. unfortunately we were only able to stop at the visitor's center. it's such a huge park and it's not very accessible.
valdez is a pretty cool location. right on the prince william sound surrounded by towering mountains. we tried to get to the alaskan pipeline terminal here, but there are tight on security these days. there's a pretty cool little boat harbor here, too. the big mountains make for quite the backdrop. tomorrow we catch a ferry that'll take us across the sound to the kenai peninsula.
the weather continues to be absolutely gorgeous here. hi 60's and mostly sunny! we'll see if it coninues...