The friday blog part one

Someone asked me what I.C.M stood for and at the same time, pointed out that it could be shorthand for I see them. I hadn't really thought about it, but i thought that was pretty cool. I.C.M. stands for Invisible Copper Mine.  Last year I went to hang out with some friends up in Alaska (shout out to john and jean) and shoot the heck outta the place, while i was up there we spent a day at Denali, which was just way to cool!  Mere mortals can't just drive into the place you have to take one of the many buses in, they have some that you  get on and when you see someplace you want to roam around in they stop and let you off. Another is the 13 hour 90 mile bus, kind of an overview sort of thing. They stop about every 2 hours, hit the facilities and get a stretch, then off you go,  they also stop for wildlife you can't get off the bus, so the windows come down and for us shooters we just shot thru the window. I got some pretty cool stuff, here's the thing, however, only 25 percent of visitors to Denali ever get to see Mt Mckinley and that, my friends  is due to weather. I can tell you that i was not one of the 25 percent. The only reason i know it's there is because of pictures taken by reliable sources, otherwise i would certainly think it's just a model, something they did for the tourists. The bus driver said things like "Mt. Mckinley is off to your left in the fog and clouds, trust me it's there." so i just went along with her, she was driving afterall. On this particular day the bus driver needed something to talk about so she would point out the location of copper mines, her comment would be ," across the valley folks, there is an old copper mine, you cant see it because of the fog and clouds" then we'd travel what i thought was 100 feet and she would point out yet another invisible copper mine so there ya go.This sounds bad but it's not, a visit to Denali is something everybody ought to do, the weather can be trash for a while but it clears, if you go, ask the bus driver to point out those copper mines. Don't go away the friday blog continues.