We spent a fantastic day in Juneau with Desi who we had met on the ferry. She was staying with friends Bess and Patrick and invited us on a bike ride and hike up to Herbert Glacier. Ralph was particularly excited as he got to ride a bike but no ordinary bike, one with 29ins wheels.
Check me out on a 29er - radulation!
Someone didn't think much of this trail sign
Ralph with 1990's rockhopper
Ow, Desi and I brave the glacial streams, only 3 more to go...
Ralph after his encounter with quicksand, his first instinct was to save his shoes
Herbert Glacier
Ahhhhhh freeeeezing cold painful feet, at least I didn't have to take my trousers off like the girls behind!
We scrambled up the rocks beside a raging river (which luckily we didn't have to cross) to get a good view
At the end of the day when we got back to the car park a black bear ran across the road nearby closely followed by a tiny cub just in time as a car whizzed past, we could hardly watch in case it got run over. Ralph started cycling to see if he could get a bit nearer to see them when another tiny cub sprang out and sprinted across the road again just in front of Ralph and just out of the path of a speeding car, it was nerve racking to watch but Ralph managed to get a close look at the cub, all 3 bears ran across the road with their claws lifted, it seems as though they don't like them touching the road. Sadly we didn't get a pic of this or to cuddle them!
On the way home we got to meet the elderly Xena, dog princess as Bess was dog sitting her for the weekend.
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