North of Yakutat within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, spectacular Hubbard Glacier is North America’s largest tidewater glacier. Fed by the high mountains of the St. Elias Range, the glacier is six miles wide and more than 70 miles long. Many cruise ships make a stop in front of this massive glacier with an always-calving 400-foot-high wall of ice [...]
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Discovering Yakutat
Over the last 28 years, I’ve explored many corners of Alaska, but one town always seems to be on my didn’t-quite-get-there list: Yakutat. I was finally able to spend a three gloriously sunny days in Yakutat this May. (Prior to this, I’d only seen the town as long as the Alaska Air jet was on the runway [...]
Flying the Combi
Anyone who flies Alaska Airlines around the state will sooner or later find themselves stuffed into a 737-400 Combi, a jet you aren’t likely to encounter outside Alaska. To my knowledge, Alaska is the only carrier in the world flying people and freight this way. I flew from Anchorage to Ketchikan today while researching the new edition of Moon Alaska and found myself onboard this unique aircraft [...]
