Day 44
More rain, more rain forecast; those guys building that arc must be up here somewhere!
Last night we changed our itinerary: We now are almost sure that we can get to Dawson city, and we all want to do that; so, we removed Valdez from the agenda in order to gain the 2 days we needed to get to Dawson and to keep our Jasper reservation; we also decided to drive a little farther than Palmer today and got this far. This now makes the trip to Tok tomorrow about the same distance as we drove today. When we leave Dawson City on Aug 9 we will get to the Whitehorse area, then on Aug 10 we should get to Skagway AK and will back to our original itinerary. We are still uncertain about getting to Hyder and Jasper since the Cassiar hwy is still closed due to forest fires in BC.
Today after arriving at the campsite, we drove back a few miles to see the Matanuska Glacier. This is a glacier that has receded very little over the years; it is 24 miles long and averages 2 miles wide. We were able to walk on this glacier; it is different from the Exit Glacier; the gravel that looks like the edge is really stones and mud and silt on top of the glacier ice; as you get close to it you can see the ice under it and the water running through it; we also got to walk on white glacial ice too. The picnic table is not on the glacier; but you can see some of the edge right behind it
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