Category: Glaciers

More Vikings, and on to St. Anthony

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...
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Exploring Quirpon, Newfoundland – a 10-km walk

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,...
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Cruising Prince Christian Sound, Greenland

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...
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Cruising College Fjord, and docking at Whittier

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,...
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A spectacular day cruising Glacier Bay

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...
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Four days RVing in the White Pass: Part 1/3

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 –...
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Hiking the International Falls trail and beyond

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...
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A hike to the Kluane Ice Cave

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...
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Exploring the Granduc Road to the Salmon Glacier and beyond

On Day 57 of the trip – Thursday, June 21st – the dogs and I drove past Stewart, through Hyder, and up the spectacular Granduc Road. Most people turn around at the Salmon Glacier viewpoint, but we continued on to the site of the Granduc copper mine where I...
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