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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 2:08 pm to Hankg
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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.
It was my first time back in T.A. since 2011, sad to say. We had planned on camping but it's still winter in the back third of the wilderness area. Last time we camped on the rock separating the arms heading to North and South Sawyer.
Early June of that year. Just jumped the gun a little this year.
Posted on 5/5/13 at 2:25 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Wow...just, wow. Every time I start to think that Northern CA has a lock on beauty in the US I have to remind myself of where you live. Thanks for sharing. I've got to get my butt up to AK. It's one of the 6 states I have yet to visit and it's number one on my list.
Posted on 5/5/13 at 2:28 pm to DonChowder
Juneau, which is in the heart of some pretty amazing country (Glacier Bay, Admiralty Island, Tracy Arm, etc) is just a two hour flight from Seattle. Hell,a few Seattle area folks come up here for the weekend.
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. 
Posted on 5/5/13 at 2:44 pm to toolpush
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Thats for posting
Should have checked the spelling before posting,sorry. Thanks for posting the pictures
Posted on 5/5/13 at 2:46 pm to toolpush
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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.
Hopefully spring will be here by then...
Weather is supposed to turn decent this week and last for a while. What's your itinerary?
Posted on 5/5/13 at 3:49 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Tracy Arm on the 28th, Juneau 29th, Sitka 30th, Ketchikan 31st,Victoria, BC 1st. We have been looking forward to this trip since November. Like you said hopefully the weather will be nice.
Posted on 5/5/13 at 4:14 pm to toolpush
Best time of year fo
r the weather. Greenest green, bluest blue.
Took this in early June of '11
Watch this. Princess Cruises produced it about Tracy Arm, which IMO is one of the most underrated places I have ever been. Sunny day in Tracy Arm.
LINK
Really well done video about the fjord. It's often called Alaskan's "Yosemite." Looks like a flooded Yosemite valley with absolutely no development. Take some time when you get in there to get off by yourself, and you probably will regret coming back to civilization when you do...
r the weather. Greenest green, bluest blue.
Took this in early June of '11
Watch this. Princess Cruises produced it about Tracy Arm, which IMO is one of the most underrated places I have ever been. Sunny day in Tracy Arm.
LINK
Really well done video about the fjord. It's often called Alaskan's "Yosemite." Looks like a flooded Yosemite valley with absolutely no development. Take some time when you get in there to get off by yourself, and you probably will regret coming back to civilization when you do...
This post was edited on 5/5/13 at 4:17 pm
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