George at Portage Glacer, notice the beautiful blue ice, very cold and windy,the orange jacket was a life saver, THANKS AGAIN!! This was the first leg of our trip: 50 miles SE of Anchorage on the Turnagain Arm, just shy of the Kenai Peninsula. While in this area, we also visited Mt. Alyeska, a ski resort in winter that serves the greater Anchorage area. The nice thing about Alyeska is that you can see the coastal rainforest at the bottom, then ride a tram up to the top (about 3000 feet) to see the Alpine plants, which were just begiining to bloom there.
There were a lot more icebergs here when I visited in Aug 1986. The glacier must be retreating back up to higher reaches of the valley. It might have been hard to convice George that day that Global Warming has been here.
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