Kenai Fjords Seward, Alaska

Today we took a short drive to the Kenai Fjords to see the Exit Glacier. This is one of the very few that you can almost drive right up to. From the parking lot, the trails to the Glacier are not long but boy are they tough, they go almost straight up and the trail has a lot of large rocks on them.

The Exit Glacier is about 30 miles long and in some places the ice ranges from 600 to 1000 feet thick. Each year the area gets about 600 to 700 feet of new snow so it continues to grow even in spite of "global warming". The blue ice is clear clean ice and the white ice is called "cover" ice.

While Jerry was waiting for me to return from a hike to the Glacier, she and some other people saw a baby Black Bear. She didn't get any pictures because she was afraid to move, after all where there is a baby, there is a mother bear near by.