Skookum glacier is an impressive looking 4 mile long glacier tucked back in the Kenai Mountains, visible from the Seward Highway.
Most trips made out to the glacier itself is done in winter. Skookum Glacier is skied, snowmachined, and even fat biked.
It is common to find ice caves at Skookum Glacier but conditions change every year with glaciers.
Take the Seward Highway 40 miles south from Anchorage, just past the Whittier turn off, park along the Placer River and make your way roughly 3 river miles up the valley, and follow Skookum Creek east, up to the glacier.
If possible to obtain permission, the easiest way is to follow the train track to Skookum Creek and then proceed up it to the glacier.
In winter it's easy access to ski, snowshoe or snowmachine (snowmobile) out to the glacier. Be ware of conditions before heading out, careful of thin ice on the marshes and snow bridges over Skookum Creek.
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Lakes:Airstrip Pond, Alder Pond, Carmen Lake, Divide Lake, Luebner Lake, Portage Lake,
Locales:Mountains:Baird Peak, Bard Peak, Begich Peak, Blueberry Hill, Boggs Peak, Byron Peak, Carpathian Peak, Hibbs Peak, Kickstep Mountain, Kinnikinnick Mountain, Maynard Mountain, Shakespeare Shoulder, Tincan Peak,
Mountain Passes:Peaks:Bearberry Point, Berg Peak, Bramble Knoll, Explorer Peak, Flying Cornice, Highbush Peak, Learnard Peak, Lowbush Peak, Lowell Peak, Portage Peak, Roost,
Rivers:Glacier River, Placer River, South Fork Upper Carmen River, Twentymile River, Upper Carmen River,
Routes:Eddy's, Gods Country, Wolverine,
Streams:Henry Creek, Ingram Creek, Kern Creek, Peterson Creek, Placer Creek, Portage Creek, Skookum Creek, Whittier Creek, Whittier Creek,
Routes:Byron Glacier Trail, Portage Pass Trail, Spencer Glacier Trail, Trail of Blue Ice,
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