All of the climbing in backcountry Glacier Bay is trail-less, which often means thrashing through alder shrubs, then low thorny salmonberry shrubs and finally out into the open. On this day, it was such a relief to get onto the snow. Lower down we'd been covered with mosquitoes and sweating hard. I was jubilant to be here on a sunny day looking down at Geikie Inlet with the sediments of the Geikie River settling into their new ocean home. This scene is looking northeast down Geikie Inlet, across distant Tlingit Point to Mt. Wright in the clouds. The highest peak on the right is Tlingit Peak. Photographer: Bill Eichenlaub