An artist, designer, and technologist, explores creative travel and her top Travel Gems, unveiling Alaska's nature and cultural richness.
Anchorage Museum
Museum
625 C St, Anchorage, AK 99501, United StatesMatanuska Glacier
Glacier
Alaska, USA"Drive to the Matanuska Glacier. The facade is privately owned and probably the most accessible glacier closer to Anchorage. So you can go work on the glacier, have the spikes on your feet, and take a hike on it. You can go pretty deep and cross the glacier lakes, jumping through the puddles created by the mouth of the glacier. And you can really touch the glacier, hug the glacier, you can be super close and intimate with the glacier."
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Portage Glacier
Glacier
Anchorage, AK 99587, United StatesMendenhall Glacier
Glacier
Juneau, AK 99801, United States"And if you go to Juneau, it's another different biome, the hike, the forests. It's very moist and lush. Mendenhall Glacier is where we did our glacier's dance music film and turned the 60 years of glacier mountain data into dance and music. The blue color is distinctive, and often you can encounter some glacier caves. Even though it's totally by luck — sometimes two weeks after seeing a cave is gone. It's about four hours to hike there and back."
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Denali National Park
National park
Parks Hwy, Denali National Park and Preserve, AK, United States"Denali National Park, there's a snow mountain where you can take an airplane, and it lands on top of the glacier. And you can see the glacier from a different perspective, whereas in the middle of the s, the shape, compared to the other glacier where you see it at the front at the facade."
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