![](Talaskanhospitality.JPG) Welcome to Alaska! Many Alaskans were happy to see us. These folks weren't |
![](Tbyronfireweed.JPG) Approaching Byron Glacier |
![](Tnearbyron.JPG) The glacier's that big white thing up there... |
![](Tfireweed.JPG) The pink flower is fireweed, so named because it's one of the first plants to grow in the wake of a forest fire... or a retreating glacier. |
![](Ticecave2.JPG) Put a lot of snow in a place where it doesn't completely melt, wait for years and years and you eventually get a glacier. But glaciers do melt, and the meltwater carves out ice caves. |
![](Tdipsonsleds.JPG) Put Texans near a glacier and they do odd things, like find sleds and go tobogganing for the first time in their lives. In July. On a rapidly moving glacier. (Hard to see unless you enlarge, but there are real Texans on plastic sleds in the middle of the photo.) |