Sally Burkholder

The Burkys were skiing at down by Portage on Monday and invited me to come with them. The perks that come with renting from the Burkys are not to be mocked. We parked by the turn-off to Whittier and skied up along the railroad tracks toward Skookum and Spencer Glaciers. When I say "along" here I mean "in the general vicinity of" I actually ranged far and wide across the valley away from the tracks. There were a few places where the streams were wide enough that there wasn't a snow bridge to cross and we had to walk across on the railroad trestles. I hear Skookum glacier is rockin' right now but we saved that for another day and kept on going toward Spencer glacier.

Sally Burkholder

Burky found some wolf tracks. I followed in hopes of catching them, stealthily stalking, even though we determined they were tracks from yesterday evening, until the wolves decided to cross one of the much wider streams. I did not want to wade, so I gave up on the wolves and returned to hunting down good trees.





The skiing was perfect, the day was perfect, and then we found A GLACIER. I split my photos into two posts and am going to save raving about glaciers until my next post...

Laura Valaas, Spencer Glacier

Laura Valaas, Spencer Glacier

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