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Black Diamond Resort Co. - Otto Lake, Healy AK99743
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Directions: Black Diamond Resort Co. is located at mile 247 on the
George Parks Highway, just 8 miles north of the Denali National Park
entrance. Turn onto Otto Lake Road and go about a half mile down the
road. Phone: 707.490.2697 for reservations, prices and information.
Season is usually May 7 - September 21.
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Below: Then it was time for
Lee and Karen Duquette's ATV Tour, their second time on an ATV. Black
Diamond ATV tours guided everyone as they each drove their rented 4-Wheel
All Terrain Vehicle, ATV, into the backcountry of Alaska, through
an old coal mining trail and through the dry Creek River bed where Athabaskan
Indian artifacts have been found in archeological digs. However, they
were so busy trying to get over the extremely BIG rocks without tipping
their ATV over that they really did not see the scenery very much. This
was a very dirty adventure, rough, but still a lot of fun. |
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Lee Duquette was on the ATV
in front of Karen Duquette and kept aiming the small camera backwards
without being able to look through the viewfinder. Most of the time, he
did a good job at capturing Karen on the trail behind him. |
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Below: A break to see the scenery
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Below: Lee and Karen Duquette
and the rest of the crew left the dusty trail for a while and drove their
ATV on rocks that just got bigger as the trail advanced. |
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Below: A bit of dust on Lee and Karen Duquette, but that was nothing
compared to what was to come..............
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Below: Karen Duquette got
off the ATV to examine the wildlife footprint in the mud |
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This was extremely rough terrain, over
rocks, even bigger rocks, up and down tipsy curvy hills and lots of dust. |
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Below: Is this dirty enough for you?
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