The Kenai Penninsula is deserving of a second trip because I really wanted to hike the Exit Glacier before the "tourist" start flooding the area so I drove back down to Hike the Harding Icefield Trail which is only 3.9 miles but straight up for the most part. My hiking partner on this trip is Sara from Alabama. I was expecting a little snow on the trail so I grabbed some Ice Cleats from the park...... yea good move. Most the snow was only a foot or so deep but a few spots where we sank thru was waist deep.
Making it to Marmot Meadows we found a couple Marmot's playing........
We didn't make it much further than the Meadows the trail headed over to the edge of the cliffs and with the snow on the trail it just wasn't safe to go any further.
Another hike we did was at Portage Glacier, still snow on the trail but not as bad with only a few places over boot level.
The above picture was shot using my standard lens (18mm) you can see the glacier and the mountain to the right of the glacier. The visitors center is a mile or so to the right of the mountain and the glacier use to be visible from the visitors center but is now hidden by the mountain. The Portage Glacier is the fastest melting glacier in Alaska.
This picture was shot with a 300mm lens from the same location, I wanted to show the contrast of the Glacier compared to the tour boat.
These were short, strenuous but awesome hikes........ with more to come from Alaska
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