Our scheduled tour that was cancelled was to be on top of Mendenhall Glacier and be pulled around by the sled dogs, which would have meant we would not have been on a lake and seen the face of Mendenhall Glacier. On to the actual tour, our bus driver Kelsey was nice and safely got us to our tour, but was not so informational.
Matt was our guide. I had been on over a week of tours in Alaska at this point. Matt was very informational and a good guide. To me there are two main points of interest the waterfall and the glacier.
I will now compare what can be seen from the canoe vs what could be seen from the Mendenhall park. On the shore, I said is it really going to take so long to get to the glacier and a different tour guide in passing said it is not as close as you think, and she was right. From the park you can get close to the waterfall, but only from the side. From the canoe you can get pretty close to the waterfall but right in front of the waterfall. Moving on to the glacier. We were told by the lady selling the tour we would get very close to the glacier because this glacier doesn’t really calve, during the tour we actual just got pretty close. This can be an active tour. I will say if you want to cover any descent distance people will need to paddle pretty hard. If your primary purpose was to to see the face of the glacier, I suspect many people at the park would be disappointed. No porcupines during our tour, I wasn’t expecting any. The snack and warm apple cider (warm drinks) to finish things off are nice touches.
If you want to see the face of the glacier I recommend this tour, it was a very good experience. Matt has refined his tour, working on perfecting it, it shows, I would specifically ask for him. Sharon in Cleveland, Matt is very much alive and may have found his calling.
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Jul 2022
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