Carly and I trekked out to Mendenhall Glacier during mid June. The route to the glacier was just as much of a jungle as I last remembered it to be. There were a few bruises here or there due to wet rocks and roots, and route finding was complex due to abundant plant growth concealing past routes. Nevertheless we made it to the glacier. There has been a tremendous amount of glacial decay since I last visited five years ago. What was once an ice cave is now a rocky stream devoid of any ice. The glacier has retreated hundreds of yards, and it has become vertically thin. In some sense sad, but this is our ever-changing dynamic planet in action.
YouTube video is here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd9JKMZxBcg]. Google map location is here.
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