Sunday, 27 July 2025 - My last day in Alaska. Again I spent the morning deleting pictures, anxious to get to the better pictures. Today I had no real plans, so I decided to head north to a town called Glacier View.

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The north side of the Chugach mountains along the route. I was stopping at every turnout for a picture.
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The mountains are beautiful.
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Giant peaks covered in snow - a glacier can be seen flowing from the ice field.
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Lots of snow in the mountains.
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Interesting mountain with two small peaks at the top.
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A high glacier in the tall mountains.
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Matanuska Glacier flows all the way to the vally floor. It is a public land but only accessible through private property.
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Matanuska Glacier is a massive glacier.
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Matanuska Glacier at its end. It is a glacier that is shrinking but not as quickly as others.
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The mountains feeding the ice of Matanuska Glacier
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An interesting mountainside with many colors of earth.
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Lion Rock was a sentinel for the indigenous people moving along the rivers to trading posts near Anchorage.
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A last picture of the Chugach mountains before heading back to Anchorage.

Late in the afternoon I headed to the airport to head back to North Carolina.


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