(Seen only by
those of us who went on the rafting trip
out of Cordova. Can you imagine anything so foolish
as rafting class 3 rapids in water only one degree above
freezing? Well, maybe rafting class 4 rapids.
Sheridan Glacier
-- as well as Sherman Glacier and others
nearby -- were named by a couple of lieutenants surveying the
area shortly after the Civil War -- and U.S. purchase of
Alaska. A little brown-nosing, you think?)