Blog for August 28
For a brief time today I thought we had found the definition of the one remaining word on Bill’s list that we couldn’t identify - Nevroks. On our drive from Valdez to Tok today, we stopped at the Visitor Center of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. One of the exhibits identified Nunataks which are small rocky islands, the tops of mountains poking through the glacial ice that provide a refuge for some hardy and adaptable plant and animal species. These islands are call nunataks - “land place” in the Inupiaq language. But, alas, when I checked the words, even though they both began with “N” and had lots of vowels and unusual letters, were not the same. We continue to be baffled by Nevroks.
However we were lightly impressed with Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, America’s largest, by far, National Park. 13.2 Million acres. In the collection of pictures, below, from today’s drive, are some of the spectacular mountains in the park that are visible from the road.
Here’s our journey for today -
Tok in the early morning light.
Keystone Canyon in the morning light.
Richardson Highway in the sunlight. This time we could see the surrounding mountains.
Twenty-seven mile Glacier.
Worthington Glacier
Fall color on the mountainside.
Mt. Drum, in Wrangell-St.Elias National Park, from the south.
Views of Mt. Drum, on the left, and Mt. Sanford on the right.
Close-up of Mt. Sanford.
Close-up of Mt. Drum.
Along the Tok Cutoff.
Along the highway through Tok.
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