Mother's Day, 2006, Alaska:

Originally we were going to go the the drag races. But David just got his new bumper built on the Durango with his new tires and winch and was wanting to go play. I had a bunch of stuff going on Saturday, so I convinced him to wait and take us all with him for Mother's Day. As there was another guy going up to Kinick Glacier with his family for Mother's Day, we got together with them - met them at the trail head.

The other guy, Scout, had a big ol' Chevy truck with 39" mud bogger tires and a 6" lift. We had the Durango with 33" IROK tires and a 3" lift. We had never been to Kinick Glacier before or even on any of the trails leading up to it.

The day actually started out pretty good, considering I had absolutely no sleep due to the babies. I was awakened by Tim at 4:30am. Since David had to drive out on the trail, I just got up at that point and started getting ready. It was kind of nice. I got to have my cup of tea out on the portch in the early morning with the birds while Tim was watching his favorite TV show. We left the house at 8am Sunday to head out to the parking lot where we were meeting the other family.

We met the other family at 9am and headed out for the glacier. It was a beautiful day. I took a ton of pictures. David was worried about the water crossings. We had to cross the Kinick River, Jim Creek, and Metal Creek. Since he wasn't that high off the ground, he said that if Scout's axles went below the water, we couldn't cross. But all of that was totally fine.

We drove for about an hour over a bumpy gravel bed then stopped for a few minutes to stretch. Then we headed in toward the mountains and took a trail that was mostly just gravel and dirt with tree roots but did have a few muddy spots. In one spot, we got stuck but not too bad. David just pulled us out with the winch. It really wasn't a big deal. Once we left that trail, we were back on the large gravel bed and crossed the creeks and the river. The crossings, like I said, were fine. After about another hour or so, we finally made it to the glacier.

We had lunch at the glacier, let the kids run around. Scout let his dogs run a bit. Then we headed up over the little rise to the glacier itself. Our family didn't go on the glacier (I didn't feel comfortable with it with all 4 kids to try and watch) but Scout and his wife and kid did. We just played around a bit and took more pictures then headed back to the truck to hide from the biting wind coming

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