Kind of a low key
day today, while we take care of a few things before moving onto Valdez. Weather was clear again today and in the low
60's. According to most folks around here,
it is normally very rainy this time of year, so we feel lucky to have a string
of good days.
Went for a small
hike in the Kenai Fjords National Park this morning. They have a small road that leads to the Exit
Glacier. Kenai Fjords is a huge National
Park and is 80 percentage-ish covered by the Harding Icefield. The Exit Glacier is just one small area
glacier that feeds off the Icefield.
Driving up to the Exit Glacier and on the hike we took today, there were
signs along the way which show where the glacier was on a given year. These signs are a couple of miles back on
the road up for the mid-1800's and the hiking trail up to the glacier (about
1.3 miles), there are other signs thru the 1900's as you get closer to the
glacier. They are not trying to show
global warming, as this has been retreating for centuries. What they were trying to show is how the
landscape was shaped by the glacier and the rivers that run off the
glacier.
Did some touring of
the area in the Jeep in the afternoon.
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| Lunch break view - Seward in the distance |
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1926 - Where the glacier was in 1926 - on the path up to the bottom
of the glacier
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| At the bottom of Exit Glacier |
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| Exit Glacier |
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| Lunch break overlooking Resurrection Bay and Seward |
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