Alan

We joined a private bus tour of the town with a stop at the Mendenhall Glacier visitor center. It was very informative but our stop was not long enough to attend the informational movie and walk down the gravel path to the glacial lake for closer viewing of the glacier. Bring binoculars! You'll be surprised that although the glacier's surface looks like it's covered in dark dust, the dust is really comprised of large boulders and other large debris that the glacier movement has picked up. We were there when there was a thunderous sound, and the glacier calved off a piece of ice, resulting in a big splash and a clean, striking deep blue colored ice. Just  marvelous. Are helicopter rides ever cancelled? That day, Juneau was cloudy, cold in the mid forties, light rain with the clouds coming in lower forcing the cancellation of all helicopter flights that morning.

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