Real life in Real Time-Mendenhall Glacier

The power of Alaska is easy to see on the trail to Mendenhall Glacier outside of Juneau. Hike along with wildflowers beside you and icy streams gurgling down the hillside to your right. See some bald eagles perched above in the trees. Study the huge striated rocks that are so wondrously cut and colored by the glaciers that you just want to stuff some into your day pack to take home. And then you begin to hear the roar of the huge waterfall that is just to the right of the glacier which you begin to glimpse as the trail curves. And then there it is: the awesome edifice of ice that looks like some sort of fantasy created for a ride at Disneyland and then you realize that this thing is absolutely real and absolutely not created by any human hands. With the fog lifting above it and the waterfall bellowing just to the right of it, the glacier commands your perfect attention and you just stare and stare.