Denali rename imminent!

Tomorrow President Obama will officially name the highest peak in the US as Denali!

He should have to climb it before he can renames it.

ViperScale wrote:He should have to climb it before he can renames it.

Mckinley may have never even been to Alaska.

McKinley not only never climbed Denali, he never got to Alaska. A sourdough who supported his bid for the presidency of the US named the peak as a show of support, ignoring the traditional Native American name. Plenty of people get peaks named after them without climbing them, and without being climbers (Everest, Fitzroy, Washington,and many more).

Obama is not naming or renaming our highest peak, he is restoring the original name used by Native Americans.

Rui Ferreira wrote: Well McKinley did not climb it either...

ViperScale wrote: Well he also didn't name it either but... for kicks he should go climb it!

Ray Pinpillage wrote: Denali is probably a bit too cold for his tropical sensibilities.

Gary Johnston wrote:Tomorrow President Obama will officially name the highest peak in the US as Denali!

According to the Wikipedia page, different native tribes around the mountain had different names, but all the names translated as "big mountain" or "tall mountain" or some such, and the Russians called it "Big Mountain" in Russian when they owned Alaska. So maybe the right name would be just "Big Mountain" to properly match how all the natives named it?

Just a dumb idea. I'm fine with Denali, it's a nice name. And calling it McKinley never really made any sense.

First he comin fer are mountains, next he comin fer ARE GUNS!!!!!!!1one

This is actually pretty great.

ViperScale wrote:He should have to climb it before he can renames it.

Maybe they should at least fly him by the mountain if he is going to change the name. I don't really care about the name I am not going to climb it, way to cold for me. I think I like Denali better anyway and have always heard it called both.

But if you are going to change the name of something I think you should at least have to visit it in some way.

TravisK wrote:First he comin fer are mountains, next he comin fer ARE GUNS!!!!!!!1one This is actually pretty great.

ViperScale wrote:I don't really care about the name

He's apparently going to do a segment of the Bear Grylls show while he's up there. Maybe that will get him close to Denali.

No one calls it McKinley anymore.

He'll do anything to make it appear he's being presidential...
without actually doing anything Presidential (like leading this country).

Buckle up your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy ride.

Mt. Balanced-Budget not only sounds bad geographically but is a virtual impossibility with Obama. Probably best to stick with Denali I guess.

I lived in Alaska for two years and NO ONE in that state called it Mt. McKinley.

Ben ASCO wrote: As it should be... To many of us it has always been Denali

woah woah woah...
Regardless of your political views, let's leave the politics at home. If I needed the rhetoric, I would turn on the 24hr news media, not MP.

I'm happy to see the name change [officially], and like many have pointed out, it's been the name MANY have used for years.