We are 2 months into this trip. It's hard to imagine today not being the highlight of the entire trip. When we checked in for our flight at 2:30, no flights had been able to do a glacier landing because of bad weather. The flight ahead of us radioed in that things were breaking up and he was able to land. Off we went. Jenny and I were both blown away by what we were seeing. It was a high definition, 3D, IMAX, national geographic special!! 40 mile long, 4000 feet deep, ribbons of ice snaking up narrow U shaped canyons. We flew around for 45 minutes, awestruck, and then we landed. Mt. McKinley was right there. We puttered around on the glacier for about 30 minutes and then we took off. We flew up another glacier filled canyon and then headed back to Talkeetna. I'm still pinching myself. Sometimes, things just come together in magical ways. This was one of those times.
SO excited and happy for you - especially the Fly Boy who is not normally excited to get on a plane again...... Once again, we are loving vicariously through you as our visit was much more sedate :)
ReplyDeleteSo nice that that things worked out for you for your flight to the glacier, did you wish just for a nanosecond that it was you flying, Dave!! What nice pictures you are putting on your blog, it it the first thing I do after feeding horses and deer, sit down with a cup of coffee and check out the blog.
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