Most of those few Alaskan glaciers near roads are nevertheless fairly inaccessible and may also be quite treacherous for casual walking. This one, the Matanuska Glacier, melts gently into a valley and is relatively devoid of crevasses or calving ice. In order to reach this spot, I had to tiptoe around a huge ice boulder that was precariously supported by a tiny pedestal of rocky ice, rather like something one might expect to see built to scare visitors at Disneyland. I nervously made both vertical and horizontal versions of the subject, which is very unusual as subjects are generally clearly superior either one way or the other, and quickly exited the deep and seemingly treacherous hollow in the ice.