THE ADVENTURES OF A SENIOR MISSIONARY COUPLE IN ALASKA

This page is to update our activities for our children and grandchildren while we are in Alaska. If you happen onto this page and you don't fall in into the above category -- go ahead and snoop. You might even want to check out Mormon.Org and lds.org to find out what we are doing in Alaska.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

ZWEITER AUSFLUG

This Ausflug (trip) was with Elder and Sister Palmer and Elder and Sister Hawkins. The Palmers work in the office with us and the Hawkins are at the institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage. We borrowed the mission van and drove to Seward, which is about two hours south of Anchorage. We saw lots of pretty sights, toured the Exit Glacier, and then toured the Aquarium. Well, everyone except for me went into the aquarium exhibit. I stayed in the van and slept and then read - I'm such a bad boy!


Sister Campbell and Sister Hawkins by the sign at
the Exit Glacier.
Sister Campbell and her main squeeze at the same sign.
The right antler of a bull moose.
A full shot of a bull's antlers from the back looking
out over the moose's nose.
A rangerette gave us a 30 minute lecture about the
joys of being attacked and eaten by either a brown
bear (Grizzly), or a black bear.
This is the skull of a full grown grizzley. The rangerette
is right behind the skull, to give you a size comparison.
That is a rubber cast of a grizzly's paw print
 that she is holding in her hand.
You can see the heads of both a black and a brown
bear hanging down - still attached to their pelt. Below
are casts of scat (poo, that is).

Mrs. Rangerette showed us several pictures of bears that had been lurking around the grounds and the glacier. She said that most bears fear a close encounter of the third kind with humans as much as humans do having one with a bear - especially a momma and her cubs. She told us that if we were to keep up a constant noise while hiking to let the bears know that we were coming that that usually caused them to stay concealed.

 After the lecture, we lit out on the hike to go to the 
glacier, which has receded considerable in the last...
 several decades. There was quite of bit of hiking
upward. Silly me, what was I thinking. Here I was
 walking into another natural feature that I didn't...

 particularly want to see. Oh well. Relax and enjoy.
 Pictures all around at a bridge over a small stream.
 Sister Hawkins, Sister Campbell and her significant
other and the Palmers posing for future generations.
 The Hawkins had to have one more picture.
 Now we started going up, up, up - over glacier smoothed
rocks.
 Shazam! There she is, the Exit Glacier.
 A closer shot. Notice the trail in the foreground.
 This is from a closer vantage point --
 another shot without the photobomb head.
 Picture time again!
 Everybody say cheese!
Here is our "whole dissembly!"

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