GLACIER LANDING EXCURSION

Riding a helicopter to land on Davidson Glacier . . . that really tweaked our imagination so we did it while in McKinley Park. It was one of the highlights of the Alaska trip. We rode 4 or 5 per helicopter plus pilot. The 25 minutes out and back provided us with some of the most beautiful and rugged terrain imaginable. Every minute there was a new vista to take in. On the glacier it was rippled ice in all directions. The mix of sun, clouds, blue ski, mountains and ice was truly memorable. You can see Jeanne near one of a number of holes that go down to the bottom of the glacier where the run-off water goes to the face of the glacier to gush out (as we saw many times from the Ryndam). That hole is 100’s of feet deep. Taking off along the length of 2 moraines gave one the feel of being on an airport runway. At the top of one mountain ridge we flew through a “V” gap the pilot said was 3 helicopters wide. Wonder how he knew that???