Thursday night -Anchorage. Friday - quick walk to check out the Byron glacier and ice cave, hiking exit glacier/harding icefield (3,000 ft 8 miles round trip), starting in rainforest, then wildflowers, moving to tundra, and finally near arctic conditions, surprisingly many Asian tourists in dresses??, difficult hike for so many people, at the end the cutest little ermine/weasel played peek-a-boo with us as we photographed it, the little guy ran in and out of the rocks popping up right next to our shoes. Saturday - sore legs, begin drive to Whittier, run to our car because we are nowhere near it and cars are now driving into the 2 mile tunnel, kayak among bald eagles, salmon runs (Pinks I think), see thousands of Kittiwakes nesting between 2 waterfalls (they need the algae that only grows in
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