Though we didn't get to the Columbia Glacier like we had wanted, the flight was still worth it. The glaciers have incredibly texture and are surprisingly not as pure white as you might think. The constant movement against the mountains allow the glaciers to lift away pieces of the mountain and embed the particles (sometimes boulders) in the ice. As the glacier melts the sheer walls of ice begin to fall apart leaving behind huge slides of ice that will melt and form the glacial rivers.

The plane that would take us to the glacier, nothing fancy but hey I've never been in a seaplane before!!!

A look at the texture of the glacier...

Another angle of the texture... some of those little crevices can be 25 feet deep!!!

A peice of the glacier that has recently broken away as it melts.

Another view of the glacier breaking away... look at the thickness of the glacier... remember this picture is taken about 500 feet above the glacier...

Some other scenic picture as we returned to Anchorage from the glacier flight.