After whale watching we headed over to see Mendenhall Glacier. I think if I had seen this one before Sawyer Glacier I may have enjoyed it more. Not to mention our Whale Watching ran a little late so we didn't have enough time to hike to Nugget Falls.
The waterfall you see in the photo below is Nugget Falls.
Here is a little perspective...if you zoom in you can see people at the base of the falls.
The striations in the rock show where the glacier was. As a glacier advances it drags rocks and boulders along with it which leaves these marks in the rock and can over thousands of years carve away the land creating a new landscape. Mendenhall Glacier used to cover a much greater area and like all the glaciers it is retreating.
This is a photo of ice from the glacier at the visitors center. We wondered whose job it was to harvest the ice everyday. It was a big chunk!
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