Hiking the Harding Icefield Trail | MUST DO in Seward, Alaska [S1-E13]
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Welcome to a true Alaskan gem, a stone's throw from Seward. In a single day, witness the jaw-dropping beauty of Exit Glacier and Harding Icefield - crown jewel of the Kenai Peninsula. Explore the ecology of Kenai Fjords National Park, and join us in wonder as we reach the End of the Trail.
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Art We There Yet Travel Vlog | Season 1 | Episode 13
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🎉POLL TIME!🎉What is your FAVORITE hike in the whole world?! Let's make a list of epic hikes for all to see! 🥾❤🗺
Probably one of the best I know is in Ordesa National Park or maybe the Cares gorge. But if you ask where we would love to go, I think that Gates of the Artic National Park are in the first place of my list. However if we are talking about long hikes Te Araroa, Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail and the Patagonia would be just really a dream.
A great hike for you guys would be the so called "Malerweg" in the Saxonian Switzerland near my location in east Germany,
which is sort of an "Artists path", 112 kilometers long, where hundreds of years ago artists did many paintings from the nature, which can be found in many books.
Once I travelled along that route and made pictures from the same perspective like I saw in their paintings. I wanted to create a tiny book about it, but never made it due to my many other projects.
But whenever in years our documentarys are finished, I invite you to the Malerweg and other nice sightseeings :)
Not counting this trip. There are many hikes in the pacific northwest with ocean views. That is a breathtaking experience.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area was a very memorable trip.
We just looked up Ordesa National Park....WOW!!!!@@alfredodejuan390
That sounds like an amazing place and an amazing hike! One of those bucket list items, especially for artists! @@CerraEquus
A hike and geography lesson all wrapped up in one fun day!
Yay!! Happy you enjoyed it!
So, so,so much more enjoyable. The music is perfect 👍. We can hear your voice and understand every word. Thank you for these videos 🙏.
Hurray!!! Thank you for the invaluable feedback!
Thank you again for a beautifully crafted video!
So nice of you!!! Thank you for watching!
What a cool hike and a great way to come down from there 😁
Hahaha, that's one way to go down a mountain, right?! 🤣
Looks like you had fun on the Harding Ice Field hike. It's gorgeous on a sunny day and some salmonberries are on the way up.
Looks like you have fun sliding down. Next time bring a trash bag or cardboard.
We did, it was an amazing day!! Good idea on the cardboard!
😍 This was almost too much for the mind to take in for one day. I was glad I hung back and spent time at top of the cliff. The wildlife started to come out of hiding as the crowd of people dissipated.
Oh yeah, that's right! You saw bears, right Dave?!
@@ArtWeThereYet Yes! I saw 2 bears, an adult and a youngster, and later saw a wolf walking up the same hill. People that live there rarely spot a wolf 🙂 such a treat!
Most remarkable thing I've experienced. Such an amazing hike. Ya'll must of gone right before my group did, late July and that last snowy part was still there but not quite as full as it is in this video. Pretty cool. Can't wait to go back.
Oh how cool! Did you also catch it on a clear day? There weren't many this summer!
Yes! Luckily we got a mid 60s and clear skies day. We kept getting told it was one of the first nice days of the year. It was perfect. We had perfect weather that entire week and from the sound of it, it was one of the only solid weeks of the year lol. Lucky!@@ArtWeThereYet
Wooow! SUPER LUCKY!!! Congrats! We're jealous! The whole time we were in Seward over the summer, this was our one "slightly clear" day. Though the misty, mysterious weather worked really well for our Kenai Fjords tour!
Thankyou for another spectacular video, Can't wait for the next instalment of your great adventures, 🥰
Oh thank you so much! Thank you for following along the journey 🙏 Next stop - the Alaska Railroad!
That is the most amazing thing! I never even considered taking the skoolie to see glaciers, just was ambitious enough to plan on an Alaska trip. Seem to recall seeing an article on the red snow, it's a microscopic algae bloom, so eerie! Fantastic video, perfectly matched to music, so informative and interesting 👍 thank you 😊
Oh man, definitely bring your skoolie all the way to Seward! Luis and Fefa even parked theirs right at the Exit Glacier trailhead! We left ours parked at the Exit Glacier Special Use area. Alaska is very skoolie friendly!
Such a beautiful scenery my friend, this looks amazing! Absolutely gorgeous work!
Thank you so very much!
Amazing video! Thank you
Glad you liked it!
The pink/red snow, commonly called watermelon snow, is due to the growth of an algae (Chlamydomonas nivalis)
THANK YOU! We have been so curious about that!!
Hi Alaska is such a beautiful place and you have shown us one of its many wonders . specially as a family .Thank you
Thank you for watching, we are so happy you enjoyed the video! 😊
Guys what a VIDEO ! Totally L O C O S
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That was my favorite hike thus far in the Seward area. You captured it well, great job!
Thank you!!! It is such a beautiful hike, right?!
This is just like going to school. Wonderful video filled with abundant information! Gracias
❤️❤️❤️Yay!!
This has been a favorite trail for decades. You covered the experience very well. I'm glad to see the trail improvements to minimize tundra destruction, but sad to report how much the glacier has receded in the past few years. FWIW, the pink/red snow is called "watermelon snow'" Don't eat it. Supposedly it tastes faintly of watermelon flavor, but will make a mess of your digestive system for a while. It's a type of algae and not what you want to introduce to your body. Thanks for a fun video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a great video!! And Butt Sliding Down?!? So Fun!!!
Thanks for documenting this amazing trek! We are also going in July (only 4 wks away!!)
Ooh have fun! You will love it!
Just curious-how old were your children at the time of this hike. We are planning a trip for next year and my littlest boy will be 8…. Your videos are great!
The kiddos on the hike were 9 and 4, I believe, at the time. The younger lad is our friend’s son, and the older kiddo is our nephew 😊
I live in Seward and would like to meet you guys sometime.
Maybe we'll see you around somewhere! I (Cora) will be part of a concert on March 29! facebook.com/events/1105521943827225/?ref=newsfeed
Such a beautiful picture ❤❤❤pls tell how degree temperature in this place
We agree! A beautiful place! The temps fluctuated from low 60's in the valley to 40's up by the icefield
Great Video 🥰👍I have a question: what camera do you have and what settings do you use to film this landscape?😎
Thank you! We usually use our GoPro and our iPhones,(we both have the iPhone 13pro).
For the GoPro we use protune so we can control white balance and ISO manually and with the phones we use an app that is called Filmic Pro. With that app you have more option to get the most out the three lenses on the iPhone 13pro.
We also have a canon 5d mark IV that we usually use for photography but some times we also shoot some scenes with it. The video quality with that camera is amazing, the only problem is that the video files are huge. So we don’t use it for videos that much.
But using all these multiple cameras could be a paint in the but because the color profiles on each camera are different, so we spend a good chunk of time color grading the footage so that the colors look even through out the entire video.
We recently upgraded to the Canon R5 and we are planing to use this camera as our main camera, that way we don’t have to spend too much time color grading the footage and the video quality will be much better!
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I wonder how long it takes to the point of the cliff
It depends on how fast you do hills, fitness level, past injuries, etc. And also if you have kids in tow or not!
@@ArtWeThereYet totally helpful reply! Still no idea how long it takes to get there 😂
@Criveboujee For us, it took about two hours (but we were filming and had kids with us). As you can see from the video, it’s 2.4 miles to get there, mostly up hill, so if you’re not filming and go at a pretty steady pace, you could probably do it in 1.5 hrs 👍
How long did it take you to complete the hike? We’re looking to hike the trail in several weeks, the first week of July
We took about 8.5 hrs, but that’s cause we were stopping to film, taking breaks at each viewpoint, plus going a little slower because we had the little ones with us. All Trails says it’s about a 6hr hike, which sounds about right to us. If we were just hiking it (no filming, kiddos, etc), then that’s about what it would take. Enjoy it!!! Try to go on a clear day if you can (can be difficult in Seward, but they do happen!)
We took about 8.5 hrs, but that’s cause we were stopping to film, taking breaks at each viewpoint, plus going a little slower because we had the little ones with us. All Trails says it’s about a 6hr hike, which sounds about right to us. If we were just hiking it (no filming, kiddos, etc), then that’s about what it would take. Enjoy it!!! Try to go on a clear day if you can (can be difficult in Seward, but they do happen!)
We took about 8.5 hrs, but that’s cause we were stopping to film, taking breaks at each viewpoint, plus going a little slower because we had the little ones with us. All Trails says it’s about a 6hr hike, which sounds about right to us. If we were just hiking it (no filming, kiddos, etc), then that’s about what it would take. Enjoy it!!! Try to go on a clear day if you can (can be difficult in Seward, but they do happen!)
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The Exit Glacier early explorers who traversed the expanse from Homer AK to Seward, got off the Harding Icefield via the easier downslope later known as Exit Glacier. Among their small number was Yul Kilcher; grandfather to Jewel (music talent fame.)
And he, the head of family who came to Alaska from Swiss. He was a hardy soul and capable too. Their family still has a larger remote homestead near Homer.
My mom met him, and he kinda seemed to fall in love.. She was a beauty of movie star quality. Came to AK from mountain west US with my dad, a naturalist ornithologist and botanist/scientist.. Dad himself was a curious piece of work, and taught across all types of people; he also knew Yul and hiked along Harding Icefield, on occasion.. But did not exit via that glacier. I've been on ice field above there; but its melted back many miles and is much thinner now than in 1970. I was last on Harding Icefield trail in 1999.. Peaks of mountains still under icecap are called Nunataks as most the Kenai and all of AK was covered miles deep in ice a few geological years ago..
~ small town AK-USA
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Jewel was my childhood idol, so when I learned her grandpa was one of the Harding Icefield explorers, I was pretty jazzed :)