Worthington Glacier is visible from the highway:
It is also visible as you enter the state recreation area:
After parking the motorhome we first took the ridge trail since we saw people coming off of it. It went up next to the glacier:
This magpie didn't like us being in its territory:
We could see quite well from the ridge trail, here is the pond at the end of the glacier:
The signs said not to approach the glacier from the front, but these people can't read:
Another view from the ridge trail:
We finally noticed there was another trail that seemed better for us since the ridge trail was getting rough. We started heading down a different way and took this picture of the parking lot:
There is our motorhome and car, still quite dirty from construction zones:
Once we got on the easy trail there were many informative signs. This one was the most fun:
From the easy trail you could see the glacier head on, including the blue color of the oldest ice:
Waterfalls coming over from another leg of the glacier:
The pond and glacier:
If we would have wanted to we could have gone on the glacier, but it is a bit dangerous so we didn't try.
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