Gravel Trail Winding Through Green Tundra Valley

A wide, green valley fills the lower half of the frame, its tundra grass patched with lighter and darker tones where clouds pass over. A narrow dirt trail curves along a slope at the right, with two tiny figures on it that give a sense of scale. In the foreground, a pale clay-colored bluff drops toward a braided, gravelly riverbed, and dark shrubs line the bottom edge.

Beyond the valley, steep mountain ridges rise in pale gray, tan and cream. Gullies run down their flanks, and a few patches of snow sit on the distant peaks under a soft, cloudy sky. Late light picks out the folds in the slopes while the near hills stay in shade.

The facts place this on the Tundra Loop Trail below the Eielson Visitor Center in Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska. Tundra here is a low carpet of grasses, sedges, dwarf shrubs and lichens that grows over cold ground, and the wide gravel bars are typical of glacier-fed rivers that shift their channels. The wide landscape format and the open space in the middle suit a desktop monitor or ultrawide display, where icons can sit on the green valley floor.