Exit Glacier

From the edge of the glacier

From the toe of the glacier

We hiked the 1(ish) mile path up to the glacier. There, we met a group from Baton Rouge. There are quite a few people from Louisiana that we've met up here. After we took a group picture near the glacier we went down and Stephen and I ran to get a picture of the glacier from below. It is so HUGE! It boggles the mind to think that it is actually quite small compared to it's size historically. There are signs along the road with dates on them that represent where the glacier was in the corresponding year. They stretched back almost before we could even see the glacier. You can kind of see it in these pictures but the parts of the glacier beneath the crust of dirt and "dead" ice are a gorgeous blue. These parts are actually the living glacier. They remind me of a blue raspberry snowcone!