Alaska. Alluring. Feral. Tempestuous. Captivating. These are a few adjectives to describe the Great State I live in. Alaska is home to lakes, rivers, mountains, glaciers and coastline that extends for 33,904 miles including all the islands . This story is not about the size of Alaska or it’s shoreline, but glaciers. The Alaska Almanac estimates that Alaska has 100,000 glaciers while only 616 of them are officially named. Specifically this story is about LeConte Glacier, which is located just outside of Petersburg, Alaska. My hometown. Our morning started early in September of 2019. Packing up gear for a day on our friend’s boat. After inflating my stand up paddle board we headed to The Salty Pantry to grab food for the day. The shoreline was nothing but a curtain of white fog as we ventured through the Wrangell Narrows. The goal of the day was to get as close as we could to the glacier so I could paddle around on my stand up paddle boa...