Kenai national park

Harding Ice field

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3500 feet up, nearly 7 hours, and 9 miles of amazing hiking. I’ll let the pictures tell the story.

  • Beginning: Harding ice field above us
  • Strenuous steps
  • Marmot meadows
  • Wildflowers everywhere.
  • Mountains everywhere
  • Glaciers too
We saw two marmots at top of the cliffs
My mountain spirit animal posing for me. It’s just a mountain groundhog.
Exit glacier at top of the cliffs.
Top of the cliffs
Exit glacier at top of the cliffs. 2500 ~feet

The whole hike took 4 hours to get up to the top. Started the hike at 8 am. The last bit was hard but it was packed with wildflowers, mountains, snow, glaciers and ice fields. I forgot how hard I was working because of the sheer beauty of the scenery.

Austin girls
Red algae on snow
Mountain side of the Harding ice field
Lots of snowy ice fortis
Family at the Harding ice field
Yes, how cool is that?

Tiny People on the glacier

Aialik Glacier / Bay

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I almost bagged this trip when Jess said the waves were a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 for rough water. I braved the elements with a heavy dose of dramamine and adrenaline. None of team Austin puked even while watching others lose their cookies (Go team). For the record, she said later it was 6 or 7 on a scale of 1 to 10.

  • Stellar sea lions
  • Ready for kayak
  • You paddle while I take pictures.
  • We saw harbor seals, and jelly fish in aialik Bay.
  • See how calm the water is in the bay?
  • Susan in her yak.
  • Where aialik Glacier meets the Bay.
  • On way back, cold wet and rocking around the cape.
  • Waterfall: fox Island

Riding back was crazy. I wish I could have taken a picture but I was holding on for dear life and couldn’t spare a hand. When we got back inside resurrection bay we saw humpback whales, dall’s porpoises, and puffins.

Whale 🐳 tail