Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, AK

Valdez was a favorite when we were expecting little, and had become a bit exhausted.

But we're off again, backtracking our way north on the Richardson Highway and the Tok Cutoff, bordering the magnificent Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Monument.

This is the largest national park in the US, at over 13 million acres.

At the visitor center, we hike the old Valdez Trail, built by the Army around 1900 to cut down on the large number of gold seekers killed cossing glaciers to reach the gold fields.