Day 56

We had planned on visiting Exit Glacier in the morning but delayed it due to rain and took the shuttle into town. It started raining harder so we stopped into a bakery and got a great cream cheese and apple bear claw and coffee, mmm! We did go to the glacier in the afternoon and took the ranger walk about 2 miles round trip with Ranger Fiona who was very good and we learned a lot about glaciers and how they recede. An example she gave was picking up a rock left behind as the glacier moved and this rock could have traveled from California. There are date signs along the road and trail that indicate that the toe of the glacier was there at that time. This was a very interesting walk.

Our morning walk on the boardwalk

The Nature Center

Out wash from the glacier, the water is gray and rain water creeks are clear

Yep, this is in color

Windy and misty

The toe of the glacier

Glacier edge, this is as close as you can get from here

A time to rest

The toe of the glacier was here in 1961

And here in 1912 about 1/4 mile apart