If you never climbed Mt. McKinley

[Hummer]

Nobody I know who has actually climbed it has referred to it as anything but Denali.

Yea, pretty much true. I've always known it as both Mt. McKinley and Denali, and have used the terms interchangeably. But, when you're in the presence of The Mountain, it is Denali.

I climbed the mountain in 1979, as part of a 3.5 month solo motorcycle trip to the arctic circle and back when I backpacked into several wilderness areas.

My biggest problem with the renaming is not just tradition and the fact that the park itself was renamed Denali in 1980, but that the half-black Marxist bigot Barack Obama has done so in his concerted effort to erase the history and contributions of white men to our nation. For that reason alone, the next president should rename the mountain, Mt. McKinley.