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Caption: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Caption: Wrangell is 13.2 million acres, 6x’s bigger than Yellowstone. It’s the largest national park in the United States, roughly the size of Switzerland.
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Caption: Kennecott Access is limited. There are only 2 roads, one of which dead ends in the town of Kennecott.
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Caption: It is a vast Wilderness of Mountains,
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Caption: and glaciers.
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Caption: We hiked,
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Caption: backpacked,
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Caption: and explored a time forgotten.
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Caption: We enjoyed the views from the ground
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Caption: and from the air.
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Caption: We hiked some more,
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Caption: flew some more,
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Caption: then combined the two.
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Caption: You lose all sense of scale.
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Caption: Icebergs the size of houses
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Caption: are just dots from the sky.
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Caption: Crevasses big enough to swallow a train
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Caption: are but slivers from above.
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Caption: It's a wild and untamed place.
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Caption: Any individual feature
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Caption: whether mountain,
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Caption: waterfall,
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Caption: glacier,
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Caption: lake,
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Caption: or river,
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Caption: could be it's own National Park in the lower 48.
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Caption: But here it is most likely an unnamed feature.
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Caption: It's so immense here,
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Caption: you can't help but feel humbled.
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Caption: Alaska really is the last frontier.
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