I’ll never forget this image as it was the first real look I had at Lake Mendenhall, the Mendenhall Glacier and the Mendenhall Towers from my first campsite on my first trip to Alaska. Although the visit took place in very early September which is almost always cloudy and rainy we had 3.5 days of clear, warm weather out of our 4 day stay; it was almost as if Alaska was smiling on us! Once we left the panhandle we moved on to south central Alaska and I was soon to see my future home…