Seward, nestled among the mountains.

Our cabin at Salmon Creek Cabins a couple of miles outside of Seward. Nice setting in the woods and the owners were great, too. One night we roasted marshmallows over a campfire and sampled freshly smoked salmon.

Exit Glacier is the probably the most accessible glacier in Alaska. The road to the glacier is about 4 miles north of Seward on the Seward highway. The front face of the glacier (to the left in the picture below) is nearly 200' high but looks smaller because I'm standing about 100 yards in front of it.

The bottom of the glacier. Since glaciers grind up the rock beneath them to a silty sediment, the water flowing from them -- and therefore rivers such as this one -- are a slate gray in color, unlike the turquoise waters of the Kenai and many other south-central Alaska rivers that we saw.

The edge of Exit Glacier as it flows down between two mountains from the Harding Ice Field, which is accessible by continuing a couple more miles up a trail off to the right..

Sun and shade on the crevasses of Exit Glacier. As the glacier squeezes between these two mountains, only the top 80 or 90 feet of the glacier is visible from here on the side.

For pictures of our wildlife cruise out of Seward, see the "Wildlife Cruise to Gulf of Alaska" link below.
 
 

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Hiking The Reed Lakes Trail

Road To Homer

Homer

Trip to Seldovia Over Katchemak Bay

Seward

Wildlife Cruise to Gulf Of Alaska

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