I wasn't kidding when I said we headed out for an adventure weekend! We got up to McCarthy (well, just outside of it) late Saturday night and got set up in our cabin at the Glacier View Campground (click on the cabin rental link to see our cabin!). The cabin was a late upgrade from our original intention to tent-camp. For those who know me, you can imagine that I'm the reason for the upgrade. Even with the "upgrade," we're not talking about luxury accommodations!
We got up pretty early Sunday morning (easy to do when you're sleeping in a cabin with no curtains/shades on the windows and it never really gets dark) and, after holding back the puke in the world's stinkiest outhouse, we got put together to head up to the Kennecott Mine. Sadly, we did NOT get up early enough to catch the shuttle we needed to catch, missing it by a half hour. With no other way to get to Kennecott (though Christina tried fudging the truth a bit to get the Lodge to give us a ride up... if only we didn't have Tok with us it would've worked, too!), we walked. Between the walk from the campground to the footbridge, the walk to try to meet the shuttle, and then the final walk from McCarthy all the way to Kennecott, we did about 7 miles. Yeah, 7 miles. (And we were sure to get the shuttle back down later!!!!)
It was worth the walk, though. The views of the glacier at the head of the Copper River were amazing, and the old mine and the old mine town were really cool. I took a TON of pictures up there (and even like a bunch of them), but since I'm supposed to narrow it down to one a day, I'm going with this one. Thanks to the Park Ranger, I got a heads up to hike just past "town" to get the best (she said "iconic") view of the mine from a little outcrop of land. She was right.
(And this only counts as one picture since it's essentially the same thing in color and b&w. I liked the color and Jason liked the b&w.)
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