Exit Glacier

On my way north back towards Anchorage, I stopped at Exit Glacier to see one of these rapidly shrinking "rivers of ice" firsthand. What an amazing sight - they really DO look like rivers of ice, and they are quite a wonder to behold.

One of the cool things that the National Parks has done is to create a trail that leads to the end of the glacier. Now, you may or may not agree with the irrefutable science that demonstrates that global warming is a major problem (scientists have a name for those of you who disagree: Fucking Morons, or Moronicus Fuckalltherestofus), but the trail to the glacier helps to demonstrate that it is melting at a very rapid pace. On the trail, they post signs telling you where the glacier's terminus was in what year. The glacier once went nearly as far as the current visitor's center, but now you have a brisk 15 minute hike from there to reach the end-point. How sad that people still don't think that global warming is a problem. Of course, those people are precisely the ones driving the RVs that get 6 MPG that are making this happen...