Embroidered Denali National Park Hat - 100% of profits donated to National Parks

This design was inspired by a clear afternoon at Stony Hill Overlook where Denali rises fully into view roughly 40 miles to the southwest. The mountain's scale takes time to register because the surrounding tundra offers no familiar reference point and your eye keeps recalibrating as you look between the foreground and the summit. Clouds often collect along the upper ridgelines even when the lower slopes are visible and the summit can disappear into weather within the hour. In the foreground, dwarf fireweed grows in low clusters along disturbed gravel and sandy soil with its pink flowers visible against the gray substrate even from a distance. A bull caribou moves through the scene at a slow pace, its velvet covered antlers branching wide as it grazes on sedges and low willows with a female caribou nearby. The herds form loose summer groupings when food is accessible across the open tundra and you can watch them travel slowly from one feeding area to another. The air at this elevation is cool and carries the particular damp quality of wet tundra even on clear days.