Category: Glaciers

This post is about the second half of Thursday, June 18th, Day 21 of our trip and the 14th day in Newfoundland – a tour with Iceberg Quest Ocean Tours. This post will be long on photos (33 of them) and somewhat short on words – I very quickly...

On Friday, June 12th, Day 15 of the trip, the weather was dramatically better! Our planned destination, St. Anthony, was only 35 km away so we had time to do more exploring at the northern tip of the island. I really wanted to return to L’Anse aux Meadows to...

After getting set up at the Viking RV Park on June 10th, I decided to go for a walk, possibly to see the nearby communityn of Quirpon (population 77) and it turned into a very long walk. Here’s the map from my Strava page. For an interactive Google map,...

This is blog post #19 from our tour of northern Europe. On Sunday, July 13th, we sailed into Prins Christian Sund (Prince Christian Sound). I’ll begin by saying that this 62-mile-long fjord system provided the most spectacular cruising I have ever experienced, and my regular readers know that I’ve...

The main feature of June 8, Day 8 of our trip and Day 7 aboard the cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam – our final full day on the ship – was a visit to glacier-studded College Fjord. The day began with this post on Facebook at 04:51: “Decade after decade,...

When we left Whitehorse, the weather forecasts for our entire cruise were calling for clods and showers or just plain rain, so I didn’t have high hopes for this day. But instead we got the most perfect weather I’ve ever had at Glacier Bay, and as a result there...

We finally got away in the motorhome for a few days last week (we left home on Thursday, July 15th). It was just to the White Pass, but it was wonderful to get back into the mountains. Getting the rig ready to go was a long slow process –...

On August 2nd, our second day boondocking with the RV in the White Pass, I decided to take the dogs for a hike on the International Falls trail, and beyond to a pass overlooking the Chilkoot Trail. We’ve done it a few times, and it’s usually about a 5½-hour...

Friends and I have been trying for 4-5 years to get to unique glacial Lake No Lake by helicopter out of Atlin, but things just never came together – weather or schedules always got in the way. On Saturday, June 29th, though, four friends joined me on a charter...

Deep among the spectacular peaks to the west of Haines Junction is an ice cave that first became public knowledge in 2016, and has been getting an ever-increasing number of visitors. Recent warnings to stay away because it’s collapsing prompted me to post a hike on a local group’s...