Portage Valley

Back before a railroad tunnel was blasted 2.5 miles through a mountain, all the supplies off loaded from the ice-free port of Whittier were hauled up and over Portage Glacier, through the valley, and put on a boat io Turnagain Arm (a water inlet of the Pacific) to go to Anchorage.  We camped in Williwaw Campground (don't you just love these names?) in the valley below another arm of the icefield that creates Portage Glacier. 

This morning we biked around the area. Here is Portage Lake with one arm Portage Glacier between the two peaks.

Just around to the right of the right slope in the picture above was this glacier:

There is a glacier cruise that goes across the lake to Portage Glacier.  We did not ride with the captian of the Ptarmigan, we're saving a glacier cruise to accompany Kimberly and Lindsy when they join us in July. 

Helen