Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska is an ideal place to view the vibrant marine habitats found at the front of tidewater glaciers.
G. is an old-timer from Glacier, although he stills talks about other old-timers as if to exclude himself.
A glacial lake with absolutely sublime views. The ice floes come from Vatnajökull, Europe's largest glacier!
People rhapsodize about Glacier, but why? The pretty peaks and bright blue lakes?
A hiking trail stretches northward along the narrows of Bowman Lake, and an hour's long walk might fail to bring you to the shore, since the woods are so dense. Bowman Lake is probably the quietest part of Montana's Glacier National Park.
One of New Zealand's famous tropical glaciers, Fox Glacier extends from the heights of the Southern Alps into the temperate rainforest below.
The scenic route through the fabled Inside Passage to Alaska leads to Glacier Bay National Park. Here you'll find a spectacular, unspoiled labyrinth of deep fjords and dramatic glaciers plunging into the ocean, ringed by snow-capped peaks reaching to 15,000 feet -- the highest coastal mountains in the world.
The nearest highway is hundreds of miles away; a cruise ship is the easiest way to see this unspolit wonderland.
On a trip this past summer to Glacier National Park in Montana I took this photo while hiking through the dense forests. I was struck by how this fallen tree seemed to be reaching upwards, like a hand or claw, reaching out to something...