Highs: Hiking near an idyllic waterfall and enjoying the wonderment of our first full day in the Alaskan backcountry. If this waterfall was closer to a road or in a national park, it would be world famous. (Funny thing is, we soon learned there are dozens of waterfalls in Chugach SP, each one as incredible as the last!)
Low: We chose a poor route to get to Flute glacier and decided to turn around at the top of the waterfall. We hiked along the side of the valley but hiking in the bottom, along the river, which we did on the way back, was much much better! If we had done that both ways we probably would have made it to the glacier :(
It was not easy walking along the sides of the valley:
But we did find an awesome stream flowing from the glaciers and rocks above. Eric and Chris filled their nalgenes up directly from the stream - yum!
View above the waterfall. The valley we didn't get to explore :(
Eric alongside part of the waterfall. We found a slight trail just to the right of it which made me nervous but was passable (we elected to leave our packs behind though).
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