Tag Archives: Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness

My morning watch began the way it had all summer. At 03:56 a.m., I stepped into the wheelhouse of the MV David B and wrote in the logbook: August 10, wind calm, depth 110 feet, barometer 1012.  Comments: rain and fog. Then I walked back to the galley, turned off all the lights, save one dim lamp under a cabinet. …

If you want to experience impermanence, I recommend a visit to the Dawes Glacier, located at the head of Endicott Arm in the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness of Southeast Alaska. The approach up the sinuous fjord, beneath the towering cliffs and countless waterfalls (many of them unnamed), will prepare you for the spectacle. The ice is eternal…and ephemeral. When the …