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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (27962)	8/1/2003 4:35:46 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 104191

So if seeing Denali wasn't the highlight, what was? I'm glad I asked. Malila said her favorite was taking a chopper out to the Juneau snow field, the 1500 square mile icepack that gives rise to the Mendenhall, and 37 other large valley glaciers, and "many small glaciers". That was cool, and beautiful, he said, understating it. We sat off a glacier in Glacier Bay, watching one calf (lose chunks which became icebergs, altho, technically, they were too small for geologists to call them bergs.) That was cool.But... my favorite-est part was College Fjord, a place where about 26 glaciers come down to the ocean. It's pretty close to where the Exxon Valdez did her thing. It was another typical NW fall day; fog and mist. Rosie and Scott will know what I mean. We had to use our foghorn on the way in. As we cruised up, the fog started burning off, and sunlight was hitting the grass and some peaks, lighting them up a bit. The fjord itself was a milky blue green, from the glacial flour in the all the run-off. Lots of ice floating all around us. My mom spent a great part of her youth visiting Yosemite, and she passed her love of it on to me, but I called her from Anchorage and told her College Fjord was the most beautiful place I had ever seen. It's so pretty it brings a tear to your eye, and I was leaking last night when I posted to Rosie and Radar, just thinking about it. My line about a real salt tear was an accurate description of what I was feeling.Stunning. The first cruise ship to CF was a charter by old man Harriman. He was in his philanthropic period, so he decided to make it a research trip, too. He brought along numerous scientists of all persuasions, including John Muir hisself. Also painters and photographers. I think they told us that the geologists left stone cairns to mark spots for future studies, although that may have been in Glacier Bay. Being mostly right coast snobs, they decided to name all the glaciers on the right side for boy's prep schools, and the ones on the left for girl's...Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, Amherst, Yale, Havahd, etc. Don't know what to make of this, but Harvard is advancing, and Yale is retreating. Anyway, who cares about eastern preppies? Go, Bears. Rat

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (27962)	8/1/2003 5:27:15 PM
From: Mannie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104191

I am very happy that I got to see those old salmon runs that you could "walk across." And they were probably well depleted from what the generations past got to see. But in a stream behind a friend's house, just outside of Seattle we got to watch every year as they battled their way upstream, side by side. What a heroic migration that is. It is just amazing to sit and watch their determination, knowing they haven't eaten since entering fresh water, you can see the war wounds and deterioration......but they powered on.. comment on your top ten list... Sitting on a ferry, cruising through a fjord in Norway...this woman from NY says, "look at that waterfall, I wonder where that came from?" (take no notice of that glacier looming above)...and her husband says "don't be stupid, what do you think keeps the fjord full?" uh huh...