The first photograph is of downtown McCarthy, from our hotel porch.
Today's activity was a guided walk on the Root Glacier followed by a guided walk through the town of Kennicott as well as the Kennicott Copper Mill. The glacier walk took 4 and 1/2 hours, with lunch sitting at the top of the glacier watching a person climbing a vertical wall of ice with ice picks. We had to put crampons on our shoes to walk on the glacier. I ended up ripping the bottom of one of my pants legs with the crampons - good thing I missed my leg itself.
The mill tour took about 2 hours. It was raining, however most of the tour was inside the large mill building itself.
The major problem(s) of the day was finding a place to eat that was open when we were ready - for example we wanted to get a cup of coffee only instead of a meal. Only two places were open, the bar was too crowded and the one dining hall would only serve a full course meal.
Signed:
The Wayward Travelers
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