After our busy morning with the Riordans, we headed home for a nap and then headed out on another excursion - this time out to Portage.
Portage is about at the end of the Turnagain Arm - remember that bit of geography?
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| A is our house, B is the Portage Glacier |
Portage is famous for having a big glacier. Well...it used to be big, anyway. There's a visitor's center on a lake where you used to look right at the glacier - the glacier has since retreated quite a ways up the mountain. We visited Portage when we came out here last August. It's only about an hour from Anchorage and is a nice drive along the Turnagain Arm. Like last year, the weather in Portage was kind of crappy.
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| driving in along the Arm - those're rain clouds. |
Before you get to "the" Portage Glacier, you drive in through a National Forest with great scenery and lots of places to camp. We might put this one on the list for when we're ready to bust out the tent. We got out and decided to walk around.
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| view of another glacier (not "THE" glacier) up the mountain |
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| Ripley enjoying the trail |
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| forest! |
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| me by a big tree that fell over. Thrilling! |
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| Andy took this - how cute is this little mushroom? |
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| How cute is this dog? - As you can guess, he found the water. |
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| Ripley also liked the really nice walkways through the forest |
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| Columbine! |
After this day, we were exhausted. We went to bed before 10 p.m. (Ripley fell asleep about 10 minutes after we got home). Little did we know the next day would be killer in terms of physical activity...
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