What's the Name?
Published Nov 16, 2004
On a cruise to Alaska, I saw my very first glacier in the magnificent Inside Passage. Excitedly, I asked the ship's officer what it was called.
"It's some dumb glacier," he replied.
Disappointed by his attitude, I bought a map to figure it out myself. I spotted our location and found the name of the ice mass.
It was called, just as he'd said, "Sumdum Glacier."
Originally published November 17, 2004.
