Seward, Alaska
This afternoon, on another spectacular summer day, (three in a row!) I enjoyed another ebike ride on Exit Glacier Road. I rode along the mighty Resurrection River, in a valley carved by the ancient glacier, and through the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Chugach National Forest, and Kenai Fjords National Park public lands.
Exit Glacier, though visibly retreating, was still an impressive sight. The rock-strewn medial moraine flowed down the icy center in sinuous curves; rugged blue seracs met the gray, scoured, bedrock cradle.
As I zoomed in to check my photos, I was surprised to find a group of adventurers standing on the glacier, tiny dark figures dwarfed by the surrounding looming ice and crevasses. A handy reference for scale.
At the glacier overlook, visitors snapped photos and marveled at the river of ice flowing imperceptibly from the Harding Icefield in a self-made cradle between rugged mountains.
A mom gently guided her little girl back to the waiting car. I wondered where Exit Glacier will be when this little one is an adult?
Though I am witnessing the inevitable exit of this aptly named glacier, I appreciate being able to visit frequently, take photos, and marvel like a tourist.
Happy Birding!
Carol Griswold
Seward Sporadic Bird Report Reporter
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