Thompson Pass

We have another sunny morning. We drive east out of the Chugach Mountains in to rolling hills. Heading east to the town of Glennallen we can see the Wrangell Mountains progressively getting larger, particularly Mount  Wrangell at 14113 feet.  Not a lot of cell coverage heading east on RT 1, Glenn highway.  After we stop at a very busy gas station at Glennallen we find good cell coverage all the way south to Vadlez on RT 4. Not a lot of settlements but plenty of towers for highway cell coverage,

Mount Wrangell

Fire Weed

Quick stop T-shirt

We stop at the Wrangell- St. Elias National Park & Preserve. This is the largest National Park in the USA, about the size of Connecticut. There is a road, 60 miles of gravel, to the towns of McCarthy and Kennicott. Kennicott was a huge copper mining facility which was abandoned in 1938. Kennicott ripped up the railroad track, but left all the machinery and buildings in place.  The park service has stabilized many of the buildings and offers tours.  The road is on the old railroad bed.  The park service grades the road multiple times in the summer, but people occasionally get flats due to old nails and spikes. We return north on RT 4 and may drive out to Kennicott

Late in the afternoon it gets very cloudy and foggy.  We boondock near the top of the Thompson pass under the Worthington Glacier just north of Valdez for the night.  If it was clear we would be able to see 3 different glaciers, but currently can only see part of

Copper River

In the clouds for the night

Large gravel pad, glacier deposited. Could part a 100 RV’s