We decided to stay here another night and went for a drive. We visited the Begisch-Boggs Visitor Center for the Chugach National Forest. This is at Portage Lake going toward Whittier. The view is the Portage and Burns Glaciers. The Portage Glacier in 1914 extended to the visitor's center. It has retreated severely. We called and made a reservation for the Alaska Railroad Discovery Train from Portage to Grandview and back. We saw fabulous scenery of mountains, glaciers, rivers and animals. We saw moose and a nesting bald eagle. We made a stop at Whistle Stop at the Spencer Glacier and took a walk. On the way back to camp we took pictures of the Explorer Glacier and Middle Glacier and went back to the Portage and Burns Glaciers. There is a trail by our camp called the Trail of Blue Ice and we took a walk on it. We didn't go the extra few miles to Whittier through the longest tunnel in the U.S. because we went there last time we were in Alaska in 2006. On that trip we took a ferry from Whittier to Valdez. We also took the 26 Glacier Tour from there.
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