Photography, Travel
Measuring Our Wingspans, the Sky Tram, and a Glacier Flight — A Day in Juneau
The beginning of our Alaskan Adventure
With earplugs in to muffle the ambient sound, you can barely hear the whine of the plane. Without the sense of hearing, it feels like you are floating, suspended on a bubble of air, high above glacial fields and granite peaks in a buffer of quiet and solitude.
The kid who picked us up and drove us to where the seaplane was docked was also our pilot. I’m not sure if this makes me old or him very young, but he’d already been flying for a decade and he looked so youthful that I had a moment of angst about him flying our plane.
Yet, on our first full day in Juneau, Alaska, he flew us over topography which looked like a screensaver on my Apple TV and he landed us safely on a high mountain lake.
We began the day with a tram ride up to top of Mount Douglas. Once we arrived at the upper platform, we hiked through snow and ice, slipping and sliding in our newly-purchased waterproof hiking books, to reach a little viewing area with a gorgeous overlook of Juneau.
