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Volumen I
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Diciembre 2017
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LOOKING FOR ALASKA
Exploring Alaska's Top 5 glaciers and the
starry night.
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LARGER THAN LIFE
We go under the surface and reveal the
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OTTAWA O'CLOCK
We got up extra early to experience the
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SATELLITE SKIES
Our friends at NASA give us a little insider
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THE LIGHTHOUSE
The 300-year old lighthouse on Wakama
Photos inside!
looking for
alaska
Being able to walk up to any glacier is a stunning experience, and this big boy is the biggest,
and perhaps most impressive roadside glacier, in part because you can easily touch it.Just a
2.5-hour drive from Anchorage, the Matanuska Glacier sits off the scenic but less-traveled
Glenn Highway. More than four miles wide at its terminus, Matanuska is so massivethat the
water flowing out of its snout forms the roaring Matanuska River.
To see the glacier, you can just take Tidewater glaciers originate high in Located 12 miles outside of Juneau,
one of the pullouts all along the the mountains and cover dozens of Mendenhall Glacier gets more than
highway each with great photo ops miles before plunging into the sea. 400,000 visitors each year. You can
or you can drive near the glaciers Only 90 minutes from Anchorage by get there by taking a narrated bus
edge for up-close photos. One car or train, Prince William Sound has tour, but you can also go on your
qualifier: Access to the glacier is on more tidewater glaciers than own: A taxi to the glacier costs $35
private land, so theres a $15 fee. anywhere on earth, and its one of one way, while a shuttle bus is just $8
If getting close isnt enough, you can the easiest places to take a glacier each way.
also join a guiding company for a cruise. Its also one of the most
glacier hike, ice climbing class or affordable places: the glaciers arent A half-mile wide, the glacier feeds
rafting trip (with the option of either terribly far away, and there are Mendenhall Lake, which stays pretty
scenic or whitewater routes). The multiple companies to choose from. placid: While there are some
sheer ice walls, deep blue holes icebergs in the lake, the face ranges
(called moulins) and creaking ice Southeast Alaska has just one glacier from 5 to 200 feet tall, so you cant
make it an unforgettable experience. accessible by road, but it makes up expect booming calving action.
At the very least, its a great excuse accessible: you can even take a cab You can, however, do some good
to drive the Glenn Highway. This road here pretty easily. exploring. Theres a Forest Service
trip gives you a feel for the colorful Visitor Center overlooking the lake
adventurers, guides and backcountry Most tours take between four and and glacier, which has a large aerial
Alaskans who live in these remote five hours, but there are two distinct map of the icefield, an informational
corners of the state. Its easy to types of cruises, and they offer video and spotting scopes ($3).
spend a couple days out here, thanks different experiences: Youll see
to the great lodgesnot the big, more glaciers on the high-speed The Forest Service also maintains
cruise-circuit lodges, but intimate, catamaranssuch as the Surprise several trails. One of them is The Trail
family-run places that attract Glacier in Harriman Fjord, which of Time, a -mile paved interpretive
independent-minded travelers. some people think is the best calving walk, with signs marking the glaciers
glacier in the sound. The slower recession. The East Glacier Trail,
Youve likely seen those iconic glacier cruising boats, on the other hand, meanwhile, is a 3.5 mile loop with
images, with hunks of ice crashing spend more time at the glaciers they 500 feet of elevation gain, which
into the ocean. But to experience visit, and those trips often include gives you a good birds eye view of
that humbling sight in person, your Blackstone Bay, where you can listen the ice.
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