Here's a view of a glacier from today's ski plane ride. I took about 250 pictures and Den about 50 during a 2 hour ride. Looking at these makes me think of a road in a City during rush hour. Yet someday it is will be a river. It was breathtaking.
The blue you see in this picture is of the glacier where there are pools of water in direct contact with the glacier ice. These areas really stand out. The blue makes me think of a child's drawing of a blue sea.
This is our trusty airplane. The peak just to the left of the propeller is McKinley. It has a cloud just about obscuring the peak. We landed
uphill with plastic sleds stuck upright into the snow (6 feet worth) serving as runway guides and then took off downhill--starting at about 5500 feet. Pilot at a couple points had us up just above 12,000 feet. What a blast!
Later in the day, we went down to the Sustina River and let Eddie throw rocks in the river for at least an hour. It was a fast-flowing river and these pictures were taken just before it's confluence with 2 other rivers.
G’ma and G’pa Ohio left this afternoon to go back home. Their red-eye flight should be leaving soon. We had a great time with them. They were game for just about whatever we---or Alaska---could throw at them. Today was probably the highlight of the trip thus far. We took a Beaver ski plane (type of aircraft) and flew from the town of Talkeetna (62 degrees lat) to Mt. McKinley/Denali NP. We circled the mountain and then LANDED on a nearby Glacier—Ruth Glacier.
Wed. (tmr) we are heading south to the Kenai peninsula—an area south of Anchorage that is supposed to be a microcosm of the whole state. Eddie is still feeling a little dicey, but we’re hopeful a week on a more regular schedule with foods more to his liking will help. It doesn’t help that he is cutting his fourth tooth. Pretty soon he’ll be 2 up and 2 down.
Got wifi at the campground. It's 11:40pm and still light out. Hard to go to bed when it's light so late. I feel exhausted, but can't get myself to sleep.
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