Thursday, June 25, 2009

Webcams on the route from Fairbanks to Anchorage

Sorry, I forgot to post this up yesterday.

We say goodbye to Fairbanks today as we board the
Alaska Railroad train to travel from Fairbanks to Anchorage through Denali / Mt McKinley. We depart Fairbanks at 8:15 - no sourdough pancakes today!

Here are links to webcams that will give you a glimpse of the area we are passing through and what the weather is like. Tune in often and hot F5 to refresh the image.

A
view of parking for McKinley Park (passing by here around 12noon). Train tracks on left - watch for us! Same location, looking south. A view of the Alaska Range from Summit (the village, not the top of the mountain!) (passing by here around 1pm).

A
view of McKinley from the south across famed Wonder Lake.

A
view of the Mt McKinley from Talkeetna (passing by here around 4pm).

Here is
a cool webpage that gives you webcams all along the passage from Fairbanks to Anchorage. Click on "Camera" near the top of the page. Then click on any of the small blue cam icons to see current road conditions. The train route parallels the Parks Highway all the way.
Finally, we arrive for our stay in Anchorage around 8pm. A
view of Anchorage looking southeast toward the Chugach Mountains.

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