Departure Time Various times daily Duration 6 Hour excursion What's Included Trained guide All necessary gear Roundtrip transportation to/from downtown Juneau Rain gear hearty, healthy snacks & bottled water Minimum Booking 4 required for tour to operate; we will work with vendor to honor all reservations or offer dates when it will be available. Maximum Capacity/Booking 12 Guest/Participant Limitations Must be in good physical shape Minimum age of 12 Maximum body weight of 250 pounds Minimum shoe size is Youth 2 ADA Access This excursion is not able to accommodate guests with service animals or mobility assistive devices/wheelchairs, or mobility issues. This is a physically demanding excursion. Description of image L: 10 Cruise: Yes The Glacier Canoe Paddle and Trek is our most popular adventure trip to the world renowned Mendenhall Glacier. Over the years, we’ve hosted families of diverse ages and backgrounds, photographers and writers, the BBC, Good Morning America, Gayle King with CBS This Morning, and the O Magazine. Your adventure begins on the shore of the Mendenhall Glacier Lake with paddle instruction from your glacier/canoe guide. We’ll load our gear into our large canoes and paddle together across the cool waters – Mendenhall Glacier, always in sight, is our destination! Glide past Arctic Tern nesting grounds, and observe the mist generated by Nugget Falls while paddling in unison to the ice. We’ll travel in 8 person or 12 person canoes skippered by 1 to 2 guides. Guests seeking a private experience are encouraged to book the Private Glacier Canoe Paddle and Trek or the Private Mendenhall Glacier Trek. As we approach the glacier, keep your eyes open for freshly calved ice bergs and feel the cool breeze generated by the ice. Your guide will navigate to the beach and land the canoe. After landing by the glacier, follow your guide across the rocky landscape to the ice to explore an array of features found along the edge – perhaps you’ll peer into the deep blue well of a moulin or ice cave, or explore a new conduit or tube cut by melt water. After an out-of-this world experience, we’ll return to our canoes and enjoy paddling back with the wind at our back. Glacier Access and Feature Exploration: **The Mendenhall Glacier is receding on a daily basis and due to this we are seeing drastic changes to the surface of the glacier. Our site for trekking on the glacier with crampons is getting steeper and more challenging each summer. These changes, along with rising lake levels, have left us with very limited, safe areas to explore on the ice. Therefore, as we prepare for the 2022 season, we want you to know that we can’t guarantee that every trip will get on the glacier. Our rates for 2022 have been reduced to reflect this change. Safety is our number one priority and we assess conditions daily on every trip. If we can’t walk on the glacier, then we will spend more time exploring the glacier up close and hiking around the edges of it safely from the bedrock. The edge of the glacier has some of the most stunning features you will find; this is where ice caves, tunnels, and tubes tend to form creating those beautiful blue colors. These features are never guaranteed but do form throughout the summer.