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AK Aviators Safety Handbook 2017 Ver3.Indd
Alaskan Region Aviator’s Safety Handbook A REFERENCE MANUAL Table of Contents Letter from Kerry Long, FAA Regional Administrator, Alaska 1 Letter from Jim LaBelle, (retired) Chief, Alaska NTSB 2 Aviation Weather Cameras 4 Alaska Flight Service Stations Information 5 Airport Forecast & METAR Explanations 15 ATIS Phone Numbers 17 Runway Safety Information 18 Construction Projects 2017 24 Alaska RCO Frequencies & Locations 25 Alaska CTAF Frequencies 42 Denali Park Aviation Information 43-53 Off Airport Operations 54-56 1 406 ELT Information 57-59 Alaska Seaplane Operation Information 60 Alaska Statute for Emergency Equipment 61 i TOP CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS IN ALASKA: 1. Failure to land on the correct spot 2. Inadequate compensation for wind 3. Loss of direction control Every Flight Review is an opportunity to reduce accidents! Accident/Incident reporting for FAA/NTSB Regional Operations Center (ROC) 907-271-5936 (24 hours) Useful Links: www.faasafety.gov www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety avcams.faa.gov www.faa.gov/go/fl yalaska www.faa.gov/about/offi ce_org/headquarters_offi ces/avs/offi ces/afs/divisions/alas kan_region/fl yalaska www.faa.gov/about/offi ce_org/headquarters_offi ces/ato/service_units/air_traf- fi c_services/artcc/anchorage/ www.faa.gov/about/offi ce_org/headquarters_offi ces/ato/service_units/air_traf- fi c_services/fl ight_plan_fi ling/ www.faa.gov/go/alaskafss/ www.faa.gov/uas/ ii 11 National Transportation Safety Board There have been many times in my career as an NTSB investigator that I wished I could reach out and literally grab one of my fellow airmen by the lapels and shake them, shake them back from the dead, give them another chance at life. -
2001 Summary2.Pub
Denali National Park & Preserve Annual Mountaineering Summary-2001 Inside This Issue: Introduction 1 Statistical Year in 2 Review First Ascents and 3 Interesting Statistics GOOD NEWS FROM DENALI! Talking Trash on 4- 5 Denali The 2001 climbing season finished on a biodegradable waste bags, helped in the effort A Testimonial 5 great note this year with safe and successful to explore new methods of human waste dis- Rescue Summary 6 experiences enjoyed by climbers, guides, pi- posal (see story page 4). The AAC grant pro- lots, as well as the National Park Service. In vided financial support for a pilot study in- Medical Summary 7 fact, even long- standing park employees indi- volving rangers and volunteers, as well as Denali Backcountry 7 cate that the 2001 season was one of the most guided and non- guided expeditions. Management Plan enjoyable seasons to date. The weather in Nevertheless, with the growing numbers of June was ‘severe clear’ throughout the entire climbers, we are still seeing occasional aban- 50th Anniversary of 8 West Buttress Climb month, with climbers summitting the moun- donment of caches and improper disposal of tain on all but three days; air taxis were able human waste; the mountaineering staff issued Moving On 8 to fly in and out of the Kahiltna basecamp nine citations for waste- related violations. Denali Pro Award 9 with very few delays. There were some new It was a relatively smooth rescue season. routes and numerous repeat ascents of hard Not only were there no fatalities in the park, Cost Recovery Analysis 10 climbs in the Alaska Range by experienced but no climbers or backcountry users suffered teams blessed with stable weather. -
Denali National Park and Preserve: Commercial Services Strategy
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE COMMERCIAL SERVICES STRATEGY August 2017 National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Business Management Group Denali National Park and Preserve Mission We protect intact the globally significant Denali ecosystems, including their cultural, aesthetic, and wilderness values, and ensure opportunities for inspiration, education, research, recreation, and subsistence for this and future generations. National Park Service Mission The National Park Service (NPS) preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. The NPS cooperates with partners to extend the benefits of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor recreation throughout this country and the world. COVER: DENALI FROM REFLECTION POND. A HIKER DESCENDING THE TOE OF A GLACIER THAT FEEDS INTO THE EAST TOKLAT RIVER. 1 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 5 COMMERCIAL SERVICES OVERVIEW 26 » 5.1 Commercial Use Authorizations 26 1 INTRODUCTION 4 » 5.2 Concession Contracts 27 » 1.1 Strategy Purpose 5 » 5.3 Denali Commercial Use Authorizations 28 » 1.2 How to Use This Strategy 5 » 5.4 Denali Concession Contracts 29 » 1.3 Method 6 » 5.5 Park Revenue Generated by Commercial Services 30 » 1.4 Strategy Structure 6 6 “NECESSARY” AND “APPROPRIATE” CRITERIA 31 2 PARK OVERVIEW 7 » 6.1 Criteria 31 » 6.2 Commercial Services Locations 33 3 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES 10 » 6.3 Authorizing through CUA or Contract 34 » 3.1 Park Purpose -
Water Quality of Streams Draining Abandoned and Reclaimed Mined Lands in the Kantishna Hills Area, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, 2008–11
Prepared in cooperation with the National Park Service Water Quality of Streams Draining Abandoned and Reclaimed Mined Lands in the Kantishna Hills Area, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, 2008–11 Scientific Investigations Report 2013–5048 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Cover: Kantishna Hills. View is looking south towards Mt. McKinley. Rock Creek is in the foreground. Photograph taken by Tim Brabets, U.S. Geological Survey, July 21, 2011. Water Quality of Streams Draining Abandoned and Reclaimed Mined Lands in the Kantishna Hills Area, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, 2008–11 By Timothy P. Brabets and Robert T. Ourso Prepared in cooperation with the National Park Service Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5048 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of the Interior KEN SALAZAR, Secretary U.S. Geological Survey Suzette M. Kimball, Acting Director U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2013 For more information on the USGS—the Federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment, visit http://www.usgs.gov or call 1–888–ASK–USGS. For an overview of USGS information products, including maps, imagery, and publications, visit http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod To order this and other USGS information products, visit http://store.usgs.gov Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Although this information product, for the most part, is in the public domain, it also may contain copyrighted materials as noted in the text. -
Lake Minchumina Chilchukabena Lake
153°0'0"W 152°0'0"W 151°0'0"W 150°0'0"W Nineteenmile (Aban'd) ALM ALM John Hansen Creek John Hansen Lake Alma Lakes ALM ALM 64°0'0"N 64°0'0"N Flume Creek WLM Beaverlog Lakes Sischu Creek Bear Creek Williams Lake Chitsia Mountain Lind Creek WLM Sandless Lake Paradise Fork Sethkokna River Big Lily Lake Starr Lake Chilchukabena Otter Creek Fish Creek Hay Lake Jim Lake East Fork Toklat River Spence Creek Chilchukabena LakeLak Billberg Lake e Wigand Creek Gosling Lake Alder Creek Sischu Mountains Sevenmile Hill Minchumina, Lake Foraker River Little Bear Creek Moose CreekDiamond Muddy River Lake MinchuminaLake Minchumina Yutokh Hill IPS Lynx Creek Parker CreekDeep Creek McKinley RiverBirch Creek Crooked Creek Moose Island Giles Bay Old Woman Creek New River BayLake Dyckman Mountain Slim Lake Donchelok Creek MinchumGeograiphnic Centear Of Alaska Marten CreLiettkle Caribou Creek Clearwater Fork Myers Creek Snohomish Hills Carlson Lake SPB Little Moose Creek North Snohomish Lake Hot Slough Shisloiso Hills Stampede Creek Snohomish, Lake Slippery Creek Stony Creek Glacier KPailngtrisimhn Pae Hakills Glacier Creek Munsatli Ridge RocBke Caruetye kCreek Foraker Pond Caribou Creek Munsatli Mountains Doghouse Lake Fish Creek Lake ALM Canyon Creek North Fork Canyon Creek Thirtyeight Mile Lake Spirit Lake Corner Lake Chleca Lakes Flat Creek Moonlight Creek Fortymile Lake Wyoming Hills Herron River IPS Yoder Lake Kankone Peak Tributary Creek Blackfish Lake Snowshoe CreekCrevice Creek Lower Canyon Teliamina Lake Last Chance Creek Cabin Divide IPS Myrtle -
Map of the Central Alaska Range with Reporting Points Overlay
to Fairbanks Nenana 90 mi 122.5 RCO 145 km Alma Lakes ! Chitsia Mtn ! 122.9 CTAF Healy River Eight ! Mile 122.4 RCO Lake 122.9 CTAF !Ä Minchumina Otto Lake ! ! 122.2 RCO Sushanna Caribou Ridge !Dry 135.55 AWOS Lakes ! !Ä Creek Healy Canyon 122.9 CTAF ! McKinley Park ERA 122.1 RCO Mt Heliport ! Sushana ! 135.75 AWOS Primrose Margaret ! SavageGa p River ! Ridge ! Park !Ä Mushers ! ! 5 mi. ! Sanctuary ! Hqtrs. Peak ! 7 mi. ! ! Teklanika Mt Gap ! ! Savage Crisscross !Ä Gap Wright Erratics 122.9 CTAF Box ! The K Denali Stampede ! Triple The Bowl Lakes (Private Airstrip) Teklanika ! Campground 122.9 CTAF ! Denai !Ä Creek Burch Teklanika Top of ! Deneki ! Pass Bridge Denai Bend in Lakes Lower ! ! ! Riley Toklat ! ! Sheep ! DoubleMt n Trail ! Clearwater ! Carlo Ridge Caribou ! Pass Carlo Cathedral ! Creek Creek ! !Mtn ! Fang Middle ! 2nd Notch Mtn Stony ! of Double Polychrome Upper Myrtle Round ! Hidden 122.9 CTAF Rest Area Riley Pass ! Top Pass Kantishna ! ! ! Glen To klat Teksan ! Creek Road Camp Saddle Refuge !Ä ! Va lley Moose Camp ! ! ! Windy Creek ! ! Divide Calico Shortcut Pass ! !Brooker Mtn. Stoney Mtn Ridge Slug ! ! Wonder Dome ! Cantwell Lake Polychrome ! Foggy ! Glacier Glaciers ! Pass !Ä 122.9 CTAF ! Cantwell (Pvt) !Thorofare ! 122.5 RCO Eielson Castle Toe of the Visitor ! Muldrow No Name Rock Easy ! Center ! Castle Glacier Pass McKinley Turtle ! ! Rocks & Muddy Hill ! ! Scott Peak Brown !Ä ! Mtn Frequency ! 122.9 CTAF ! Summit Changeover Sunset Galcier W. Fork 122.6 RCO The Old Cache Chulitna Glacier Y of the Volcano ! ! Creek ! ! ! West Fork 122.725 Bend of the Anderson ! Muldrow Pass Golden North Zone Mine Toe of the ! Mountain Traffic McGonagall Peters !Ä Advisory Frequency ! Pass ! Igloo Ohio ! Wedge ! Mt Bend of Gunsight Peak 122.775 the Peters Pass ! !Mather ! ! MTAF Mt ! area of mountain inset Tatum Brooks Aircraft flying above ! 15,000 msl ! e Mt Tluna g Silverthrone d ! Carpe Deception Icefall i Col R ! Flatiron ! r ! ! e ! Koven Mt Mt Peters e n ! Karstens Silverthrone Eldridge o ! ! Dome Wickersham i W.F. -
Denali National Park and Preserve National Park Service Denali Alaska U.S
Denali National Park and Preserve National Park Service Denali Alaska U.S. Department of the Interior Denali means “the High One” for Athabascan Indians north of the Alaska Range To Make a Wild Dream Come True Charles Sheldon had a dream. Standing on a rise and holding its breath, so still yet dynamic, epic run out of fish and bison and bears and so much “the mountain,” or “Denali,” the Athabascan name in the Kantishna Hills in January 1908, he pulled and epoch in its dimensions, the America that else—was rapidly becoming just that: a myth. A meaning “the high one.” Certainly a mountain like out his field glasses—more important to him than used to be. Such a grand ambition. More than a Yale man who preferred to be in the wilderness, that could take care of itself, being the highest in his hunting rifle—and looked around. Everything dream, it was a spark of idealism, a vision. Could Sheldon decided to dedicate himself to the conser- North America. But what of the magnificent wild his eyes feasted on could one day be a premier Sheldon do it? Could one person with help from a vation cause of President Theodore Roosevelt. He animals that embroidered it, the grizzlies, caribou, national park, the Yellowstone of Alaska, preserved few committed colleagues and friends successfully journeyed to Alaska when the young US territory wolves, moose, Dall sheep, and others that moved and protected for one reason above all others: to campaign for the creation of a national park? had no roads and only 30,000 people (fewer than over the land with ancient grace? Market hunters celebrate restraint as an expression of freedom, our five percent of what it has today), and found his were coming into the country with an aim to rare ability to save a place so it will one day save Thomas Jefferson had said it would take 1,000 years way to the mountains. -
Foundation Statement
National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Denali National Park and Preserve Foundation Statement Resource Stewardship Strategy The National Park Service (NPS) directs each park to develop a MISSION STATEMENT Foundation Statement, which for Denali National is a formal description of the park’s core mission and provides Park and Preserve: basic guidance for the decisions to be made about the park—a We protect intact, the foundation for planning and globally significant Denali management. ecosystems, including The Foundation Statement their cultural, aesthetic, for Denali National Park and and wilderness values, Preserve is the park’s most basic document for planning and and ensure opportunities management. It is grounded in for inspiration, education, the park’s legislation and from research, recreation, and knowledge acquired since the park was originally established. It subsistence for this and provides a shared understanding future generations. of what is most important about the park. The legislation used to understand and summarize why Congress and the president created the park—and to build many parts of the Foundation Statement—is included in Appendix A. Denali’s Foundation Statement describes the park’s purpose, significance, fundamental resources and values, other important resources and values, primary interpretive themes, and special mandates. How to cite this document: National Park Service. 2014. Denali National Park and Preserve Foundation Statement. Denali National Park and Preserve, Denali Park, Alaska. 69 pp. -
Geologic Resources Inventory Report, Denali National Park and Preserve
National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Natural Resource Program Center Denali National Park and Preserve Geologic Resources Inventory Report Natural Resource Report NPS/NRPC/GRD/NRR—2010/244 THIS PAGE: Mountaineering rangers on backcountry patrol in a land of giants. Ruth Glacier, Denali National Park and Preserve. National Park Service photograph by Tucker Chenoweth, Denali National Park and Preserve. ON THE COVER: View of the terminus of Buckskin Glacier with Mount McKinley (20,320 ft) in the back- ground, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, August 6, 2004. Photo courtesy of Ronald D. Karpilo, Jr., Colorado State University. Denali National Park and Preserve Geologic Resources Inventory Report Natural Resource Report NPS/NRPC/GRD/NRR—2010/244 Geologic Resources Division Natural Resource Program Center P.O. Box 25287 Denver, Colorado 80225 September 2010 U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Natural Resource Program Center Ft. Collins, Colorado The National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center publishes a range of reports that address natural resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate high-priority, current natural resource management information with managerial application. The series targets a general, diverse audience, and may contain NPS policy considerations or address sensitive issues of management applicability. All manuscripts in the series receive the appropriate level of peer review to ensure that the information is scientifically credible, technically accurate, appropriately written for the intended audience, and designed and published in a professional manner.