Wind whipped Portage Lake is licking at the visitor center foundation.  Thick clouds race through the sky and completely shroud 6 glaciers that hang from the valley walls.  Sheets of rain are driven sideways in the wind.  We stayed one night but the weather never calmed.  We moved on along the Turnagain Arm toward Anchorage to watch for beluga and the bore tide.

Our goal is to kayak Portage Lake to get a look at the many fingers of ice and to get close enough to Portage Glacier to check out the ice chunks that have calved off and float the lake.  If the weather cooperates we will take the car and kayaks back that way in a day or two and try to make that voyage.