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| Grewingk Glacier and Lake |
Stats
Distance: 4.5 miles Difficulty: Easy / Moderate Time: 5 hrs
On
8 Jun 2013, the Kachemak Bay State Park had its annual “Trails Day”. The purpose of trails day is to clean and
repair the many managed trails in the park.
In addition to the maintenance hike, the state park also sponsors a
guided family hike to Grewingk Glacier.
The hike started with a boat ride to the beach to take the Glacier Lake
Trail to the glacier, the returned to the bay via the Saddle Trail.
Since the start and end points are not the same, this particular route requires someone with a boat to drop you off and pick you up; if you don’t have a convenient friend with a boat, you can take one of the Water Taxis operated out of Homer. This particular hike, as part of Trails Day, was sponsored and supported by Mako Water Taxi.
Since the start and end points are not the same, this particular route requires someone with a boat to drop you off and pick you up; if you don’t have a convenient friend with a boat, you can take one of the Water Taxis operated out of Homer. This particular hike, as part of Trails Day, was sponsored and supported by Mako Water Taxi.
We did this hike before we
started this blog, so we don’t have GPS maps of the route we took. You can find good trail maps at the web site
above. We will upload a GPS track of the
route the next time we take this hike.
Opinion
This is one of our favorite full day hikes; it is well worth the water taxi fee. We also recommend planning a nice picnic lunch at the glacier.
