Imagine for a moment that you're on a dingy boat being taxied through the choppy, blue-gray waters of Resurrection Bay. It's the middle of July, yet the temperature on the water is a numbing 40 ...

As long as the airplane stays, we still have a link to civilization. But eventually, it takes off, disappearing down the long arm of frigid water and leaving the 10 of us with our mound of gear. The ...

The wrinkled Blackstone Glacier absorbs every color of the spectrum except blue, so the crevasses are a brilliant, Gatorade-like aquamarine. Megan Gambino Foamy salt water sloshes up onto the little ...

VALDEZ, Alaska -- We're standing in a field of rocks in a dense fog, surrounded by icebergs stranded at low tide. This is the terminal moraine of Alaska's Columbia Glacier -- the rocky debris that was ...

As the helicopter swoops over the landing site, the clouds part to reveal a bluebird day. From the distance, it’s all jagged peaks, crackling ice and snow-covered glacial fields as far as the eye can ...

Question: We are planning a trip to Alaska, three to four days of which will be spent kayaking Glacier Bay. The drop-off points are a bit of a distance from the Tidewater glaciers, let alone the ...

Andrew Hooper’s wife had warned him about getting too close to an Alaska glacier. She wasn’t pleased, he said, when he returned from a kayaking trip earlier this month soaked to the bone but with ...

Washington County is aiming to create a "top-notch" swimming, boating and recreational facility on Friess Lake at Glacier Hills County Park in the Village of Richfield. Washington County is aiming to ...