This December has been pretty cold so Mendenhall Lake was frozen over enough to walk on. On 12/22 Richard and I walked across the lake to the face of the glacier. It was an easy ~1.5 miles to the face, though we couldn't get too close to it since we saw cracks in the ice when got close the glacier. Since it hadn't snowed in a while, there wasn't much snow to trudge through either.
On 12/24 Matt and I walked the lake on the other side at Skater's cabin. That's where most people go skate skiing across the lake, but we didn't have skiis.
On 12/25 couple of people supposedly fell through the ice. The risk of falling through always exist, so take precaution and if the ice looks dodgy, don't walk on it!
