There were still a couple of hours of daylight remaining when I landed in Juneau about 1PM. I asked at the hotel what I could do and they suggested taking a taxi to the Mendenhall Glacier. The taxi dropped me off about 2:20 and I arranged for it to return at 3:30 when the sun set. There were lots of other people out there, some walking their dogs, one photographer using the glacier as a background for clients getting pregnancy announcement photographs, and others just looking from the designated lookouts. I decided I wanted to get as close as possible and followed the beach for a while. It’s a large area and the trails, while marked, aren’t marked well enough for a directionally challenged person like me so I kept my eye on various groups of people ahead of me. I forded a couple of shallow creeks but balked at one that would have required me to step in a foot of water. I didn’t have time to find the less challenging trail before dark so I didn’t get right up to the glacier. I took all of these shots within the hour before sunset, not exactly golden hour in this frigid area.
Oh my! And your trip hasn’t even started yet!!!!!! Glad you have warmies to wear :)! And I even saw Jordan!!!!