Denali Park Polychrome Pass in Spring of 2008

Polychrome pass is the highest point on the bus ride. An the one lane road barely fits the bus. On the way back, we passed another bus here, which required our bus to backup towards the edge. I just closed my eyes and said a little prayer.

Photos from a NP working trip to Denali National Park in mid June, 2010. Photos were taken from the park road and trail system, from the front gate to Denali Park road mile marker 45 (Polychrome valley rest stop).

I don't normally think of Gothic as startlingly realistic. That's where I'm wrong, see.

Bear Near Polychrome

Polychrome Pass

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The different minerals in the rock producethis multi-coloured effect.

polychrome glaciers in background

Polychrome and ingenuous Mexico

Atlas Storage Building. Now home of Slought Foundation, Daily Pennsylvanian, Metropolitan Bakery

Polychrome Pass gets its name from the colourful volcanic rocks that you can see that were formed about 65 million years ago as pressure from the pacific tectonic plate sliding under the continental shelf forced magma to the surface.

polychrome glaciers in Denali

Polychrome Elevations by Peter Newman at the Southbank Centre, London

Bear near Polychrome

View from Polychrome Mountain in Denali National Park.

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Extremely rare opportunity to photograph a soaring eagle from above.

Polychrome 9"

From up here you all look like tiny ants. Doug and Nate at the bottom of the overlook.