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  • Road leading through a green valley and mountain pass to a snow-covered mountain peak.
    Blonde grizzly bear mother with a cub on a field of green grass.
    Hikers in motion on a trail surrounded by blurry green brush passing on both sides.
    Highway bridge crossing a river whinding through a forest with snow-covered mountains and storm clouds in the background.
    Cabins nestled in a forest along a river with kayakers paddling by.
    Family playing at a river’s edge with trees and mountains across the river.
    Road leading through a green valley and mountain pass to a snow-covered mountain peak.
    Mountain peal sticking out above the clouds of a dramatic summer storm with a range of mountains below.
    Grizzly Bear starring at the camera
    Staff in various visitor serving uniforms pose in front of a cabin and garden.
    Huskies wearing sunglasses.
  • Entrance to the Kantishna Roadhouse lodge.
    Log cabins and conference room exterior.
    Exterior of the Kantishna Roadhouse lodge.
    Exterior of log cabin surrounded by trees and garden.
    Exterior of log cabin surrounded by trees.
    Exterior of historic building at the Kantishna Roadhouse.
    Interior of Kantishna Roadhouse restaurant, bar and lounge.
    Interior of Kantishna Roadhouse restaurant, bar and lounge.
    Interior of Kantishna Roadhouse restaurant, bar and lounge.
    Interior of Kantishna Roadhouse restaurant, bar and lounge.
    Guest cabin interior with a view out the window and split door.
    Guest cabin interior.
  • Guest room interior with 2 beds and high vaulted ceiling.
    Interior of guest room with 2 beds.
    Kantishna Roadhouse dining hall interior.
    Snow-covered mountain peak breaking through clouds against a blue sky.
    A tiny tour bus on a road dwarfed by an expansive valley, snow-covered mountains, and dramatic storm clouds.
    Exterior photo of rustic mountain restaurant with deck and garden.
    Painters with canvases and easels are spread out on a hillside with a red mountain behind them.
    Abstract aerial photo of green and purple mountains.
    Floral meadow stretches out to reddish orange mountains with blue snow-capped mountains behind them with dramatic clouds.
    Green tundra leading to colorful mountains and dramatic clouds.
    Green tundra leading to dark colored mountains and dramatic clouds with stream in the foreground.
    Large reddish orange mountain on the left with a smaller snow-capped blue mountain in the distance on the right.
  • Caribou eating grass.
    Ptarmigan in green brush and pink flowers.
    Abstract photo of glaciers and mountains.
    Glaciers wrap around dark mountains and collide.
    Red, oOrange and green mountains laced with snow with gray clouds overhead and blue mountains in the background.
    Reddish orange mountain scene from the air.
    Mother grizzly bear and her cub eating grass.
    Grizzly Bear staring at the camera.

Kantishna Roadhouse & Denali River Cabins (Doyon, Inc.)

Alaskan Summer (2014) was a body of work in Denali National Park and surrounding region commissioned by Equity Marketing Solutions of Santa Cruz, Calif. and Doyon Inc., the largest Native American land-holding corporation in Alaska. Most of these photos are taken along the Kantishna Wilderness Trail, a breathtaking 93-mile road and the only road in this 6-million acre wilderness; the Kantishna Roadhouse, Doyon’s lodge at the end of the Trail; and the Denali River Cabins; Doyon’s cabin resort on the Nenana River just outside the Park. While these are the more commercial shots, Alaskan Summer is the fine art portfolio that came out of the assignment.

Snow-covered mountain peak breaking through clouds against a blue sky.

Mt. Denali is usually shrouded in clouds from the most common view inside the park, but accessing the opposite side from the air opens up a more unique view of North America’s tallest peak.