The end of Blackstone Bay, where all the glaciers are, is about 20 miles from Whittier. Rather than paddle from Whittier, which we did last summer, we shared a charter boat with...

Here is the Lawrence Glacier, where the charter dropped us off. We arrived here at about 8:30 PM on Friday. We camped right on the 'beach' both Friday and Saturday night.

The view from our tent window. It was a good thing that our tent had a view, because the bugs were so bad at the campsite that you didn't want to stay outside very long. Here we could enjoy the view bug-free.

Here is Blackstone Bay in relation to home. The Yellow Diamond is where we were camped.

This icefield above Blackstone Bay (looking south) is the origin of many of the glaciers in my recent photo albums. See next map...

On its west side are Bartlett Glacier and Trail Glaciers, which we saw on the Ski Train, as well as the Spencer and Skookum Glaciers, which

On Saturday, we began exploring Blackstone Bay. Here we are in front of Beloit Glacier, one of two tidewater glaciers in the Bay. (Tidewater means that the glacier flows right into the ocean)

Another couple in our group watches the glacier. We sat in front of each glacier (at a safe distance of course) for close to an hour, watching pieces calve off, always hoping to see a house-sized chuck come crashing down. We saw a number of car-sized piec

After Beloit, we paddled about a mile around the point to Blackstone Glacier.

To give you an idea of size, the face of this glacier is about 1500 feet tall. There are four kayaking in the middle of this picture, where the rock wall meet the ice, but they are so small you can't see them.

There they are.

Some more kayakers from our group. These guys went closer to the glacier than we did. We didn't feel the need to get too close. Not only is it safer further away, but it is also easier to see the whole glacier.

One of the many falls near the glaciers.

This was a neat little spot. If it wasn't for the ice above the falls, you'd think you were in a tropical rainforest.

The backseat driver.

This was the final picture we took on Saturday, which shows where we were planning to hike on Sunday. We scoped out a route up the rocky ridge, in the right-middle of the photo, between the two glaciers. On the hike we made to the top of the rock , wher

Here are our routes for the weekend. Red is where we paddled on Saturday, Blue is where we paddled & hiked on Sunday.

As we paddled over to our hike on Sunday, we encountered a flotilla of Sea Otters.

We pulled the kayak up on the beach and began hiking our way up the ridge. We had great views of the glaciers and falls on the way up.

The best part about areas like this is that they don't see much human traffic. There are no trails and we saw no evidence of people. But it did mean a couple short sections of nasty bushwhacking.

Hiking up a streambed.

Nearing the top. The hike was probably 2-3 miles and went up about 1600 feet.

We went as far as we could go. We made it to the point where the Beloit and Blackstone Glaciers came together, so any further travel would have been on ice. At the top we were in the fog and it was starting to rain, which was too bad because I think the

Crevasses in Blackstone Glacier. The glacier gets like this because it is falling steeply down a mountainside.

Of course, on our way down the mountain, we did a little sliding on the snowfields (this is not on the glacier).

Heading back down so that we would be back to camp before our charter pick-up at 5:30 PM.