Forest Explorers: Searching for Stars

Saturday was a pretty day after a long week of rain. When we arrived at the pavilion for the start of the program, it was so nice to see the glacier clearly as opposed to through the rain like last week!

Ranger Doug led us on a walk around looking for stars in nature. It was very cute to see all the kiddos looking down and around and seeing how creative they were in finding stars! M+M worked very hard to draw their stars in their "field journal"!!

The highlight for me came at the end... We walked over to Steep Creek and saw the salmon spawning! We heard there are a few bears hanging around feeding off the salmon, but we didn't see any. There is a fish cam in the creek that broadcasts on line and in the visitors center, but i couldn't get it to work for me. Here are a couple links to check out Mendenhall Glacier from where ever you are: from the US Forest Service and from Alaska Geographic :)