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Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska. It boasts five-star dining and hospitality while at the same time is surrounded by wildlife, breathtaking views, and adventure galore. Here are a few of our favorite things to do near Anchorage, Alaska. If you’d like an adventure, this list is for you. Alaska’s Matanuska Glacier Tour Now, […]
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Article updated October 30, 2023 originally published: January 12, 2018 Explore the Mystical Blue Ice of Matanuska Glacier! Welcome to the heart-pounding, awe-inspiring world of glacier hiking in Alaska! I’m your expert guide, and I’m thrilled to introduce you to the extraordinary experience of exploring the breathtaking Matanuska Glacier. Are you ready for the adventure […]
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Instagram-Worthy Locations along the Glenn Highway – Discovering Alaska’s Picture-Perfect Gems Here are the top Instagrammable spots along the Glenn Highway that you must stop and see. Most can fit in a day trip between Anchorage and the Matanuska Glacier! Our experienced tour guides at the Matanuska Glacier have compiled this list of the top […]
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Matanuska Glacier’s seasonal blanket of snow has more in common with milk than just being white. Like milk it doesn’t last long. It has an expiration date. It’ll melt away, become runoff feeding the Matanuska River leaving behind an expanse of glacial till, mud, open crevasses and new challenges and dangers for glacier travel. Not […]
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We recently stumbled upon Jasmin Alley’s thorough and descriptive article about visiting Matanuska Glacier. A skilled travel writer, her blog post covers history, facts, directions, and just about anything you’d need to know to plan your own visit to Matanuska Glacier, to include where to procure your entrance ticket and glacier tours. Alley’s travel advice […]
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We were so excited this morning to learn National Geographic Travel (Instagram handle natgeotravel) and photographer Toby Harriman featured his winter glacier tour of Matanuska Glacier on Instagram with an epic blue ice crevasse photo. Harriman explained that this year he made his first WINTER pilgrimage to the glacier, and judging by the photo and […]
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[siteorigin_widget class=”WP_Widget_Media_Image”][/siteorigin_widget] One question we get asked here consistently is if we have wildlife on the glacier. Since the only plant life on the glacier is the glacier moss, there isn’t any sort of food source that would sustain animals such as moose and bear. Therefore, you wouldn’t see anything of the sort on the […]
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Glacier Mice Due to harsh conditions, cold climate, and lack of soil on the glacier’s surface, it is quite impossible for anything – even bacteria – to effectively survive and thrive. The Matanuska glacier sits between the Chugach and the Talkeetna mountain ranges, and because glaciers are ever-moving forms, it is constantly grinding away at […]
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