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Alaska Photos: Seward

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Seward was my favorite town in Alaska, save for the tiny village of Halibut Cove (more on that later). It’s a quaint little hippie town right on Resurrection Bay, just outside of Kenai Fjords National Park. Gorgeous views, good restaurants, wildlife, friendly people, and, um, glaciers.

Up close, glaciers are incredible. They breathe. They calve. They feel half-alive. You’ll see some photos of the Aliak glacier we got within about a mile of on a boat. The sound of the calving is thunderous. In the photos, you’ll see the calving chunks. They look like snowballs. They’re actually the size of cars.

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6 Responses to “Alaska Photos: Seward”

  1. #1 |  zyx213 |  September 6th, 2008 at 2:30 am

    There’s oil in them there hills.

  2. #2 |  Dog's New Clothes |  September 6th, 2008 at 8:33 am

    “There’s oil in them there hills.”

    Drill, baby, drill!

    Great photos, Radley. I’ve always wanted to go to Alaska. Did you go to Skagway?

  3. #3 |  Nash |  September 6th, 2008 at 9:07 am

    Hah!

    I saw the picture of the deuce and a half and thought “damn, that looks familiar.”

    Sure enough, that’s the one I’ve heard much about and seen pictures of. The two headed argument of “Who cares if it’s cool, wtf are you gonna park it, and htf are you gonna get it down here?” won the day.

  4. #4 |  Steve |  September 6th, 2008 at 11:21 am

    Radley, when visiting my sister in Anchorage last year, I walked on the Matanuska Glacier with my kids and it was AMAZING! At least until my 8-year-old son fell down and sliced up his hands on the jagged ice.

  5. #5 |  Les |  September 7th, 2008 at 12:37 am

    Wow, I don’t know if I would have come back to the lower 48 after seeing that. Great photos, Radley, thanks.

  6. #6 |  Zeb |  September 8th, 2008 at 10:25 am

    Wow Seward is really nice when it’s not raining. I was there late last September and went on one of the tour boats during a big rain storm. It was awesome, but we couldn’t get to the tidewater glaciers, unfortunately. It’s cool to see everything green and the mountains visible.

    Did you have a chance to actually touch or get on top of a glacier? That is amazing, especially when you consider that the huge piece of ice you are on is just the tiny tip of a huge river of ice.

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