Marie Monroe desperately needed some good news. An unexpected August snow meant guests couldn't get into or out of Kantishna Roadhouse, the backcountry lodge Monroe manages in Denali National Park and Preserve.
As Monroe walked from one lodge building to another through snow flurries, a fellow employee shouted excitedly, "They've renamed the mountain!"
"It's about darn time," she replied.
Monroe, an Athabaskan Native American, had always thought of the continent's highest peak, which looms over the roadhouse, as Denali.
"But I was resigned it would take forever to lose the name Mt. McKinley because of government red tape," she said.