Alaska 2004  --  Day 12

Day 12, Thursday June 10 ~  Fairbanks to Kennicott

We drove under threatening skies from Fairbanks to Chitina in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park via the Richardson Highway.  We paralleled  the Alyeska Pipeline much of the way.  At the Chitina airport we left our vans, and with limited luggage, we flew in two small (5-6 passenger) chartered planes to McCarthy.  From there a van shuttled us to the Kennicott Glacier Lodge in the old copper mining town of Kennicott.  Most of the buildings are old mine buildings and are falling apart having been abandoned about 1943.  After dinner and in a drizzle we had a guided walking tour of Kennicott.

The Pipeline crosses the Tanana River	The Pipeline has many jags to allow expansion/contraction
Don and the first group get ready to fly	The second group is all aboard
View of the Copper River and the McCarthy Road bridge	View of the Chitina River and the McCarthy Road

Aerial view of a swampy area

Walking tour of Kennicott

Last updated: July 18, 2004