McKinley out, Denali in
 

The White House announced Sunday that President Obama is changing the name of North America's highest peak. Mount McKinley — named after William McKinley, the 25th president, who served in the White House until his assassination in 1901 — is returning to its traditional Alaska Native name, Denali.

Obama will make a public announcement of the name change in Anchorage Monday, during a three-day visit to Alaska.

As Alaska's Newsminer reports:

"The mountain, which has been officially named after the 25th president of the United States since 1917, will now be recognized by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names by its original Koyukon Athabascan name."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...nley-to-denali

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Not sure which would be scarier. Scaling Denali or staring at McKinley's beetle brows.

Apparently, McKinley's home state of Ohio is very upset over this. Maybe they can rename the tallest point in Ohio, Mt. McKinley. But in Ohio, that's probably a building.

How big of a kickback do you think they got from GMC? :D

All these trucks named after mountains. Must have good range. :O:

Ohio may be upset but Alaska's been trying to get the name changed for something like 45 years.

Locally, I wonder why Mount Rainier is still named after a British Admiral. There have been efforts to get it changed back to the native name, but they seem to go nowhere.

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We have Castle mountain about an 1 1/2 hr drive from home up here in Canada that was renamed Mount Eisenhower from 1946 to 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Mountain

Maybe they need to talk to Obama. Apparently he has the power to change the name as he sees fit, without needing to consult anyone else.

Maybe in 10 years. I'm still to inexperianced to climb Denali. But in 10 years I'm going up there :yep:

I once worked with a lady who was originally from Alaska and she referred to the mountain as Denali (she was not a descendant of the original indigenous tribes) and that was way back in the 70s. Apparently, the citizens of the state seemed to prefer Denali over McKinley. Maybe if the Alaskans temporarily set fire to the Yukon River, Ohioans will feel less slighted...

It's not only trucks named Denali: right now, I'm wearing Denali shoes...


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I thought Denali was a river in Egypt?

One can only assume that you are not knowledgeable of how this decision came about.

Hint: It was not Obama just deciding on his own. :nope:

Yeah, that damn Obama! Handing all our good presidential mountains over to foreigners like the Alaskan natives!

That's my understanding from the times I've been up there. Alaskans usually only say Mt. McKinley when Denali confuses a Lower 48er. "Denali? Is that the one next to Mt. McKinley?"

Back in my climbing days, all the climbers called it Denali. Everyone I ever encountered that had anything to do with the mountain, called it Denali. Those who actually care about the mountain are, or should be happy, for this.


And being from Ohio, I could really not care about the presidential name.