For the Denali park visitor there is something called the 30 percent club — based on the fact that 70 percent of those visitors to the park never get to see the actual mountain! At 20,320 ft. this mammoth peak, which is just a part of the Alaska Range, makes its own weather and is usually obscured partly or completely by clouds. With the park entrance being in a canyon setting and far from the mountain itself you must first enter and then drive or shuttle some 9 miles into the park to get your first glimpse. One evening covering the public portion of the park road looking for wildlife, I could have sold tickets to look at the mountain through the viewfinder of my 500 lens. Deceptive as it was, a white dot on a jagged horizon, even folks with high powered binoculars were hard pressed to find the mountain from 70 miles away under quickly changing conditions. The vistas are that grand!

Singh-Ray ColorCombo Polarizer to cut the glare off both the pond and the snow covered mountain being careful not to obliterate the reflection!