Denali National Park and Preserve
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Sep 17, 2026
Jenny McCartyGUEST
One's of a Pika and Rocky Mountain National Park.
Jenny McCartyGUEST
One's of a Grizzly Bear and Denali National Park in And one is of a wolf in Grand Teton National Park.
Jenny McCartyGUEST
And so I released those and they went viral.
Jenny McCartyGUEST
We need to
Ava WhiteHOST
I'm Ava White.
Ava WhiteHOST
A new bridge has reopened a long, scenic stretch of Denali National Park, which closed after a landslide in 2021.
Ava WhiteHOST
The Pretty Rocks Bridge spans an active slide zone that has challenged efforts to maintain a Hikers and cyclists started making their way across earlier this month, ahead of the return of vehicle traffic next year.
Ava WhiteHOST
Shelby Herbert from the Alaska Desk took a shuttle up to the trailhead to find out what has visitors so excited.
Will MoranSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, I see the woes, and we got to see a caribou or a moose, and they've never seen one of those before.
Will MoranSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It fulfills me.
Shelby HerbertCORRESPONDENT
A massive landslide in 2021 cut visitors off from this stretch of Denali National Park.
Shelby HerbertCORRESPONDENT
But this month, the new Pretty Rocks Bridge started carrying hikers and cyclists back across.
Tiz CavetzaHOST
I am Tiz Cavetza, Marketing Manager for Wanderlux Destinations, and I am thrilled to be joined by Marnie Sheldon, owner of Sheldon Chalet.
Tiz CavetzaHOST
Today, we are headed to one of the world's most extraordinary places, a remote, rocky outcrop in the middle of Ruth Glacier, 10,000 feet up in Denali National Park in Alaska.
Tiz CavetzaHOST
Sheldon Chalet is reachable only by helicopter, holds five bedrooms, and carries a family story that begins with a bush pilot named Don Sheldon and his wife Roberta more than half a century ago.
Tiz CavetzaHOST
So sit back as Marnie is going to tell us all about the Sheldon family story and this experience that is honestly so vast and so grand.
Marnie SheldonGUEST
So Don was hired.
Marnie SheldonGUEST
And through the 50s, every summer they spent flying around, taking photographs, surveying to build this map that had never existed before of the entire range.
Marnie SheldonGUEST
It was in that effort that he claims five acres of the mountain before Denali National Park was expanded and before Alaska became a state.
Marnie SheldonGUEST
So here we sit as the only people to own five acres of the mountain.
Steve GoringGUEST
Now, I've been to Alaska three times.
Steve GoringGUEST
I rode the train from Whittier to Denali twice.
Steve GoringGUEST
Come back.
Steve GoringGUEST
So, and yes, when I got on the train, it was, I set my wife down in a nice warm car and I went out and stood on the platform all the way to Denali.
Steve GoringGUEST
So, yeah.
DustinPANELIST
Yeah.
Kate CoffinHOST
So Rick McIntyre is the acclaimed author of the award-winning series Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone, which includes the book Rise of Wolf 8, The Reign of Wolf 21, The Redemption of Wolf 302, and The Alpha Female Wolf.
Kate CoffinHOST
So Rick worked as a ranger naturalist and wolf researcher for the National Park Service for four decades, including many years in Alaska's Denali National Park, where he first began to study wolves.
Kate CoffinHOST
In 1994, he became Yellowstone National Park's wolf interpreter, educating thousands of park visitors each year on Yellowstone's now famous wolf reintroduction project.
Kate CoffinHOST
In 1998, Rick transferred to Yellowstone's wolf reintroduction project full time and helped with research on the park's wolf population.
Rick McIntyreGUEST
Sure.
Rick McIntyreGUEST
My name is Rick McIntyre, and I started working in Yellowstone National Park in 1994.
Rick McIntyreGUEST
Prior to that, I'd been a park ranger in many parks throughout the country, including Denali National Park up in Alaska, Glacier National Park in Montana, and for many winters in Death Valley National Park in the California desert.
Rick McIntyreGUEST
And I study wolves here in Yellowstone.
Steve StocktonHOST
The usual height and weight for one of these beautiful, yet possibly deadly creatures is standing around three feet tall and weighing up to 300 pounds.
Steve StocktonHOST
Next, on Monday, May 3rd, 2021, Mason Stansfield, a 28-year-old from Ouray, Colorado, lost his life after falling into a crevice of a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
Steve StocktonHOST
Mountaineering rangers received a report from a satellite communication device that a skier had fallen into a crevice.
Steve StocktonHOST
Mason, who was an experienced skier, mountaineer and also a mountain guide, was skiing with his partner who reported she could not see or communicate with him once he had fallen in but alerted the authorities as quickly as she possibly could to try and get rescue out there before he passed away.
Tail DraggerHOST
They are still doing glacier landings, still putting climbing teams on the Kahiltna, still flying into the Ruth Gorge.
Tail DraggerHOST
The techniques Sheldon developed and refined, the low reconnaissance pass, the surface reading, the conservative approach, speed and heavy flap setting, those methods are still taught and still used, and the mountain house is still out there on the glacier, inside what is now Denali National Park.
Tail DraggerHOST
climbers bivouac in it during storms.
Tail DraggerHOST
Photographers shelter there waiting for light.
Mike WandersGUEST
this is not...
Mike WandersGUEST
I don't love the idea that they seem to be running the show here." Um, and then in Denali, I backpacked Denali.
Mike WandersGUEST
I, I did a, a...
Mike WandersGUEST
I closed out my whole trip recently doing a solo backpack in Denali.
Mike WandersGUEST
That was the sketchiest thing I've ever done, and, um, just because I'd never...
Mike WandersGUEST
There was one day where...
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Jeremiah ByronHOST
Mm-hmm.
Mike WandersGUEST
Yeah.
Steve StocktonHOST
The usual height and weight for one of these beautiful, yet possibly deadly creatures is standing around 3 feet tall and weighing up to 300 pounds.
Steve StocktonHOST
Next, on Monday, May 3rd, 2021, Mason Stansfield, a 28-year-old from Ouray, Colorado, lost his life after falling into a crevice of a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
Steve StocktonHOST
Mountaineering rangers received a report from a satellite communication device that a skier had fallen into a crevice.
Steve StocktonHOST
Mason, who was an experienced skier, mountaineer, and also a mountain guide, was skiing with his partner, who reported she could not see or communicate with him once he had fallen in, but alerted the authorities as quickly as she possibly could to try and get Rescue out there before he passed away.
Steve StocktonHOST
His remains were located that same day.
Steve StocktonHOST
A spokesman for the park stated that the accident had happened on a tributary glacier that flows into the main Eldridge Glacier.
Steve StocktonHOST
Mason had even done some mountain guide work on this same mountain in Denali before.
Steve StocktonHOST
He was a certified rock guide through the American Mountain Guide Association and had spent the last six years of his life working as a mountain guide out of Colorado's San Juan Range, as well as in other parts of Alaska.
Sharon StitelerGUEST
three years, yeah.
Rob DriesleinHOST
At Denali National Park, I was a little further north at Gates of the Arctic National Park.
Rob DriesleinHOST
I had a couple interesting things happen.
Rob DriesleinHOST
One, we were glassing one morning on the lake we were on, and someone said, there's a loon out there.
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