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Tracy Arm Trip May 4th
Posted on 5/5/13 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 5/5/13 at 1:23 pm
Not all we had hoped, because of ice...but fun nevertheless. I know some of you folks are going there on a cruise this summer, it will be dramatically different, and very green in a month.
Photobucket album
Didn't get all the way. The plan was to launch off the boat and spend the night, catch a ride back the next day on another sightseeing boat. Didn't happen, we couldn't get close enough to the S. Sawyer Glacier to even see it. Got to the last turn, about 5 miles from the face of the glacier, about 8 miles from the Canadian Border
These granite walls are about 2-3,000 ft above tidewater. Water is about 1,000 feet deep, straight down.
Bear on avalanche debris. Saw several on this trip.
There are hundreds, maybe thousands of huge waterfalls here. Some dropping thousands of feet down to sea level. Amazing place.
video of some waterfalls, Tracy Arm
Spring and winter
Documentary Crew along for the ride. They launched to check out the ice, and a few bears. Saw one bear going up a vertical wall after a mountain goat. Pretty damn cool.
Leaving port
Photobucket album
Didn't get all the way. The plan was to launch off the boat and spend the night, catch a ride back the next day on another sightseeing boat. Didn't happen, we couldn't get close enough to the S. Sawyer Glacier to even see it. Got to the last turn, about 5 miles from the face of the glacier, about 8 miles from the Canadian Border
These granite walls are about 2-3,000 ft above tidewater. Water is about 1,000 feet deep, straight down.
Bear on avalanche debris. Saw several on this trip.
There are hundreds, maybe thousands of huge waterfalls here. Some dropping thousands of feet down to sea level. Amazing place.
video of some waterfalls, Tracy Arm
Spring and winter
Documentary Crew along for the ride. They launched to check out the ice, and a few bears. Saw one bear going up a vertical wall after a mountain goat. Pretty damn cool.
Leaving port
This post was edited on 5/5/13 at 1:51 pm
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Posted on 5/5/13 at 1:58 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Roger, Thanks for posting the story and pictures. It will be three years this July since I have been up there. I think about all the things I want to do up there daily. SE Alaska is such an amazing place. I wish I had more money for more frequent trips. Enjoy it, I can tell you do.
Posted on 5/5/13 at 2:00 pm to RogerTheShrubber
That's pretty cool, man. As much as I love the marsh, the basin, the sawgrass and the cypress...having that out your back door must be pretty awesome.
Posted on 5/5/13 at 2:40 pm to RogerTheShrubber
That is some awsome pictures. Wife and I and another couple are going on a cruise leaving Seattle on May 26 up through the inside passage. Cannot wait. Thats for posting. 
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