Childs Glacier

Mui and I have visited many-a glacier … all over the world … from the north to the south. We’ve cruised by these amazing rivers of ice. We’ve flown over them. We’ve hiked on them. We’ve sat with them. We’ve listened to them pop and crackle. We’ve watched them calve huge amounts of ice with thunderous booms.

Something about Childs Glacier, however, made today’s experience very special. Something that I have yet to put my finger on. Not that the reason really matters. It’s the experience itself that counts. It’s what I will remember.

First we cruised by the glacier in the jetboat. Then, we tied up ashore and hopped in Lucas’s van to go to the day-use and campground facilities built and overseen by the National Forest Service. Here, Lucas built a fire that Mui tended as we ate our self-catered picnic and sat enjoying the peaceful serenity that comes with being at one with nature.

I don’t know where the campers who had set up their tents under the picnic shelter were, but I am glad that we had the entire area to ourselves … except for the Forest Service personnel working on cleaning up the winter storm debris. Our only problem? The mosquitoes that were swarming! Not expecting the pesky bugs, we’d left our bug jackets and repellent in the hotel. Thank goodness Lucas ventures nowhere without his Deet.Read more