The day after our bike ride, we decided to drivee 48 miles from Anchorage and visit Portage Glacier. We'd been there before, but not in April. Like a lot of other places, the Visitor's Center was closed. The trail we'd planned on hiking was also closed, due to snow! Here is Tom, standing at the trail head:
The glacier was still beautiful, but it was cold. The blue skies and sunshine of Anchorage, didn't extend to where we were at. To make matters worse, we'd forgotten we'd brought our coats into the hotel. I wore Liz's coat, which was in the back of the truck (where we'd thought ours were) Tom squeezed into my fleece, with his over the top. We stopped for lunch with a view of the glacier.
On the way back, we stopped at Moose Flats to hike a bit. There are boardwalks there, over swampy (frozen) places and thickets of leaf-less and skinny trees. Moose droppings were everywhere! On the way back to the truck, I felt moose eyes on us. Weird, I know, but one can't help be a bit paranoid when stepping over multitudes of moose poop piles! I stopped and glanced around. THERE IT WAS! Starting at us, with only a few skinny trees between us. We stared back for a few heart stopping moments. Then the moose's ears started twitching. A bad sign. We scurried away.
As we drove past the town of Girdwood, we stopped at a shop called "Alaska Tourist Trap." Who can resist a name like that? She had some nice jackets on sale; $5.00 each. She was trying to clear out last year's stock and these, besides being dusty in spots, were missing the hoods. They are nice, though, with a fleece side and a water proof side. Now Tom and I have matching reversible Alaska jackets; too bad we didn't have them sooner, Tom would have been a lot warmer hiking.
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