Photos

[Click on the image to see the full Panorama!]

A handheld 270° Panorama 9click image to see the full wide image) of the Don Sheldon Amphitheatre, a glacier filled bowl a 6,000 feet high - a third of the way up to Denali (Mount McKinley). I stitched this together with Photoshop.

It is said that "On a perfect day, the Don Sheldon Amphitheater on the Ruth Glacier is so spectacular as to be almost beyond belief - which is why Reader's Digest listed it as one of the ten most spectacular places on earth!"

After landing on the glacier you’ll step out of the plane and onto an ice sheet nearly a mile thick. The scale of the Amphitheatre is hard to fathom. You’ll feel like you can reach and out touch the “nearby” peaks…until your pilot tells you they are in some cases ten miles away.

The place is named after a bush pilot who built a viewing hut here on the glacier before it became a national park. You can stay in it for a night or two. It has a wood stove and 6 bunks.

In the large version you can see the outhouse that belongs to the hut on an brownish outcrop a little to the left of the centre.
Just to the right of that and a little to the left of that red marker you can see the peak of Denali / Mt.McKinley.