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Exit Glacier
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They say that glaciers are to tourists in Alaska what baroque cathedrals are to tourists in Italy – that sooner or later, you get to the point that the prospect of yet another scenic glacial panorama is enough to make the kids roll their eyes, stamp their feet and refuse to get out of their carseats.
Getting close enough to touch and walk on them, though, is a rare thing – and the Exit Glacier, dropping from the massive Harding icefield near Seward is the best chance we’ve had to really see a glacier up close and personal. Walking across the brittle talus of the moraine, through the cloudy meltwater streams, feeling the cold catabatic winds and touching the clear, hard ice of the glacier tongue itself brings it to life in a way that no amount of picture-postcard scenic photo-ops are ever going to. This is what a Glacier feels like. |
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