Nope. I've been on this f'in bus ride when we were in Alaska. The ride back to Wonder Lake starts off nice and easy on a wide paved road, but 12 miles into the park that shit changes, and quickly. Pretty soon there's nothing visible out the window but sheer nothingness. No curbs, no guard rails, no nothing.
Leaf mines from a larva of the aspen leafminer moth, Phyllocnistis populiella, on a quaking aspen, Populus tremuloides, in Denali National Park in Alaska. Aspen leafminer larvae feed on the epidermal tissue of plant leaves; while they don’t eat photosynthetic material, they indirectly disrupt photosynthesis by destroying guard cells around leaf stomata. Guard cells control when stomata are opened or closed, so they can end up stuck in one position and either prevent carbon dioxide uptake or allow excess water loss. Leaves affected by aspen leafminers often die. Aspen leafminers tend to experience population increase during warm, dry years, so while they’re native to Alaska, researchers are keeping an eye on them and their impact as climate change warms up the region.
Denali National Park...Providing Mountain Viewing Experiences for a Few Million Years! by Mark Stevens
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This was one of the first views that I had of Wonder Lake along the namesake trail from the North Face Lodge area. I had just come through a saddle between two hilltops and had this open plain in front of me with it's amazing view. That is what I was attempting to capture with this image in angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward and bring out a sweeping view across the tundra to my front with its vibrant colors of red, orange and yellows. The eyes would definitely be drawn to the waters of the lake and take in the wonder of the snowcapped peaks of Denali and the Alaska Range.