We drive south back to Skagway, from Yukon Territory, dump the car, (refilling for $4.47/gal, the highest gas price we saw on the trip), and walk as fast as we can back to the harbor: Temsco Heli rides. We had had 3 previous float plane/heli rides cancelled on previous days due to the crummy weather.

We put on boots, life vests and hop on the choppers...the take offs and landings are choreographed and it is like a scene out of Apocalypse Now, as we fly in file over the harbor, the mountains, the passes, past Homer, AK and a 30 min ride to the Meade Glacier. A team of student glaciologist majors is on the glacier to give talks, walkabouts, and keep us from slipping into the house sized crevasses.

The Meade Glacier is one of the largest in 'southern' Alaska, and is simply breathtaking and hard to describe, when one is 'on it', walking around...
its size is impossible to put in a photo. It is typically dirty, full of stones that range from sand to house size, ribboned like a marble cake, noisy, and cold.

When we had almost giving up on 'Alaska', after several soaking rainy days and our fill of t shirt joints and roll your eye 'tours', the long day of driving to the Yukon and back, and the glacier trip, were fabulous!
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