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Tongass National Forest
This glorious, lush forest is our nation's largest. Its 17 million acres...
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Columbine
The dense forest was wet, misty and rainy throughout our hike here....
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Dense, rich forest
There were mosses and lichens everywhere. Clara said to imagine the...
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Enchanter's Nightshade
Also called Evening Primrose (Circaea alpina).
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Clara with Devil's Club (Echinopanax)
These spiky plants are ubiquitous in Southeast Alaska; we saw them on all our...
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Dwarf Dogwood
Like the tree, only a little plant!
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Lichen
I think this may be Peltigera
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One-flowered wintergreen
Monesus uniflora.
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One-flowered wintergreen
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Views
From about 600 feet up, views from the older forest show the young forest and...
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Bergs in Mendenhall Lake from the forest
The glacier has retreated about two miles in the past fifty years. There are...
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Wild Blueberry
Bears like these berries, though only a few, unformed berries were growing.
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Salmonberry
Bears like these berries. The berries were either absent or just developing...
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Us in the Tongass
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In the temperate rainforest
You can see we're wet.
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Me
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Mendenhall Glacier
John Muir, in 1879, called this the Auk Glacier, which he said flowed into a...
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Mendenhall Glacier
We had fabulous and various views of the glacier on our hike. Of the...
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Us and the Mendenhall Glacier
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Bergs, forest, glacier
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Roseroot (Sedum)
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Maidenhair Fern
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Clara and a little lake
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Goat's Beard
This was one of the most common plants we saw in Alaska; in the woods...
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Yellow wildflower
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Saxifrage
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Clara at AJ Falls
AJ stands for Alaska Juneau.
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Another view of the Mendenhall Glacier
The glacier is about 12 miles long, fed by the Juneau Icefield.
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The glacier extends 12 miles!
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Violets
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Alder and creek
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Glacier, bergs, waterfall
We left the forest and approached the shore of Mendenhall Lake.
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The Mendenhall Glacier
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Mendenhall Lake and Glacier
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Arctic Tern
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Arctic Lupine
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Rose Lily
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Mendenhall Glacier
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Clara with a 250 year old berg
Our guide said many of the bergs on this lake broke off from the glacier a...
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Bergs, Mendenhall Lake
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