| Saturday, September 9th |
| Mike and Bruce on the train to Whittier |
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| Boarding a ferry at Whittier for a tour of Prince William Sound |
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| A bird skims along the surface of Prince William Sound. |
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| Bruce boards the train for the return trip from Whittier to Anchorage. |
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| Sunday, September 10th |
| On the Alaska Railroad, traveling from Anchorage to Talkeetna |
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| Bruce and Mike hanging out in the observation car |
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| The Blue Tarp Dental Society at Alaska Mountaineering School: Mike, Dan, Bruce, Pete and Paul |
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| Monday, September 11th |
| AMS Instructor, Colby Coombs, runs us through an equipment check before we start out. |
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| Shedding excess layers. AMS Instructor, Caitlin Palmer, looks on. |
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| Hiking up into Peters Hills |
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| Our campsite in the Peters Hills |
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| To keep the bears out of our tents at night, we set up a separate cooking area down the hill. The pole that held up the shelter busted in the wind our first night. |
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| Tuesday, September 12th |
| By Tuesday morning, the weather, and visibility, had deteriorated. |
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| Another Tuesday morning shot |
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| Pete crawls out of the tent. |
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| Mike putting on frozen boots and gaiters. |
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| Hiking up a snow-covered local peak |
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| Bruce pushes the boundaries. |
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| Pete, Dan, Bruce, and Paul |
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| Wednesday, September 13th |
| Bruce, Paul, Caitlin, Colby, Pete, and Mike |
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| The tundra was covered in berries. |
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| In a display of bad acting, Bruce pretends he is eating the berries. |
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| The snow-covered local peak the group climbed is in the background. |
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| Pete and Paul at Wednesday night's dinner |
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| Colby checks the pole, which we repaired with duct tape. |
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| Playing cribbage in the tent. |
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| Later Wednesday night, the weather cleared. |
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| Even though the weather was clearing, Dan and Paul were too comfortable to leave their tent. Dan snapped photos of Mt. McKinley from the doorway. |
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| Bruce settles in for the night. |
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| Thursday, September 14th |
| Panorama of the Alaska Range with Bruce and Dan |
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| Group shot with Mt. McKinley in the background |
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| Stopping to eat lunch on a day hike |
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| Returning from the day hike |
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| Hiking out of Peters Hills |
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| We stopped for a beer at the Forks Roadhouse on our way back to Talkeetna. |
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| Friday, September 15th |
| Playing basketball at AMS |
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| In the Talkeetna cemetary there is a memorial to all the people who have lost their lives climbing Mt. McKinley and other peaks in the Alaska Range. |
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The Moose's Tooth?
Mt. Huntington? |
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| Our Peters Hills campsite seen from a "flightseeing" tour. |
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