Visited: Monday, July 3, 2023
Our main tour of the Alaska parks has now started, and we kicked it off with the beautiful Lake Clark. Recommendation: If you have the choice of taking the Beaver Pond trail or the main trail to get to the waterfall, take the main trail, _particularly_ if it's wet out (whether actively raining or not). The Beaver Pond (which now, in my mind, is Bunny Hop) trail is, as advertised less steep. But it's much longer, much narrower, much more covered in roots that will do their best to trip you, and if it's wet - it will drench you. The waterfall is well worth visiting - it's the highlight of the park - but the sharp climb at the start of the main trail levels off, and it's a fine hike after that. The flight into the park was rather good, passing close by multiple glaciers, some rather spectacular.
Update: I realized, after, that many of the National Parks in Alaska count as two units (officially one for the park, one for the preserve), even though there's only one place to visit. Numbers being updated to match...
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