Spencer Glacier

On Friday I pulled together an EPIC adventure! I'd wanted to go visit Spencer Glacier which is only accessible by train. I'd gotten a little frustrated with the railroad because they wanted to charge me a full round trip ticket even though I only wanted to go one way. So I went down to the railroad station and talked with the nice people...after an hour of talking with them a guy came from the back and told them to just give me the "Friends and Family" rate and get me out. Sweet! so we ended up getting a two for the price of one, which made it the same price as a one-way. After I got the tickets I called up a friend to borrow a raft for floating out the river. I spent a few hours trying to decide which raft...paddle raft or oar raft...after deliberating I went with the smallest paddle raft called the Hoser boat...AKA Patches. This raft was an old one that is held together with, well patches - it worked liked a dream. We loaded up all our stuff in dry bags and got ready for a Saturday departure. Saturday morning was a rush, I went for 10 mile run and Kari did 15...way to go Kari! we made it to the train depot and put the stuff on the train...Kenai was able to ride with us but she had to have a muzzle...she hated it! The hike in from the whistle stop to our campsite was about 2 miles, so we had to huff the bags in...and the raft. We went with Spencer and JT and we had a great time. We rafted on the lake near icebergs, the glacier, and did some rock climbing. The raft out was great...only class I and II water but the sweepers and stumps made the upper part of the river a real challenge with the paddle raft. We had one issue where we hit a stump and it flung Kari out into to water. She, being skilled kept herself mostly in the boat, and I was able to bring her the rest of the way in...but she did get went, and glacial water is super cold...just ask her. We all couldn't believe how well Kenai did in the boat...she is our adventure dog! After we made it down the river (about 4 hours) we took out and the bugs ate us alive. I must say this trip was amazing!