Medications can boost or lower HDL. HDL levels are sometimes improved by drugs used to lower LDL and triglyceride levels â such as prescription niacin; fibrates such as gemfibrozil (Lopid); and certain statins, particularly simvastatin (Zocor) and rosuvastatin (Crestor).
Similar scenery is found in several more remote sites nearby, and for hikers, the best place is the 9,799 acre Granite Mountain Wilderness, northwest of Prescott; here a pristine area of chaparral, rocky hills and pinyon-juniper pine woodland is crossed by several trails, all centered on 7,626 foot Granite Mountain.
The higher elevations of the mountains of the Alaska Range remain snow-covered throughout the summer months. The peaks of Granite Mountain are usually free of snow by early June. Granite Mountain, also in the Alaska Range, is 5,815 feet high and extends NW 15 miles from Gerstle River, 20 miles SE of Delta.he Alaska Range (a portion near Delta shown above) extends 650 miles in an arc from Lake Iliamna at the southwest end to White River in Canada at the southeast end. The highest point of the Alaska Range is Mount McKinley (Denali), the highest peak on the North American continent, at 20,320 feet.