We left Juneau to cruise in foggy weather towards the mouth of the glacier. Hubbard Glacier flows from the Saint Elias Mountains down through Canada’s Yukon Territory before terminating in Alaska’s Disenchantment Bay, near Yakutat. It's the largest glacier that reaches the sea in North America.
It is 76 miles long & 7 miles wide at the mouth. The face is 700 feet high with 300 feet underwater. It is one of few glaciers still advancing at over 80 feet per year. While we were watching substantial chunks were calving off the face - very noisy. The ice is a startling blue, because all of the air has been compressed out of it. The snowfall at it's mountain source is over 100 feet per year. The pilot boat met us well out to sea, a big powerful vessel.
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