Check out Alaska's glaciers by air, foot or sea

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Check out Alaska's glaciers by air, foot or sea

Check out Alaska's glaciers by air, foot or sea

A brown bear and her cubs travel down the snow and ice-laden Copper River near Cordova.

Humpback whales near Point Carolus at the mouth of Glacier Bay.

Passengers get a chilly look at Alaska's icy waters while hoping to spot a whale or other wildlife.

Harbor seals lounge on ice rafts that calved off of the Harvard Glacier in College Fjord, an inlet of Prince William Sound.

Vacationers taking a shore excursion from Holland America Line's Zaandam walk on the Hole-in-the-Wall Glacier. Although the ice is not really colored, it appears blue because glacier ice is so dense, it absorbs every other color of the spectrum except blue.

Beth Harpaz and her family are shown with a team of dogs, getting ready for a ride at Mitch Seaveys Ididaride kennel after a day of viewing glaciers.

Ice peaks protrude from the Herbert Glacier in Juneau.

Cruise passengers get a close-up view of the Hubbard Glacier on Glacier Bay.

Slabs of ice calve from the Harvard Glacier during a small-ship cruise of Prince William Sound.

Temsco helicopter pilot Chip Kalvin, left, flies passengers from Holland America Line's Zaandam over a mountain ridge enroute to the Juneau Ice Field to view numerous glaciers. Cruises to Alaska have become popular with vacationers to experience the natural beauty of glaciers and other scenic, wildlife and cultural aspects of the state.

Hikers in Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska on the path leading to the toe of Exit Glacier.

Holland America passengers line the forward deck as they view Margerie Glacier while cruising in Glacier Bay National Park.

Passengers aboard Royal Caribbean's "Radiance of the Seas" cruise ship watch as the ship passes by Alaska's Hubbard Glacier.

Passengers get a close-up view of glaciers, so keep binoculars at hand.

Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier is one of the many sights cruisers get to see up close.

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A brown bear and her cubs travel down the snow and ice-laden Copper River near Cordova.

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