There was a boat once a month to Kodiak and Seldovia, close to Homer, but that had left a week before. So I was in a hurry and so I decided, well, being Swiss and all, I would go afoot to Homer. Being Swiss, I was not afraid of the mountains. I went directly up the creek in Seward. Slid down the mountain and got stuck in the crevasse and barely made it out. Yeah, I got on the... on the Bear Glacier and got to... but there were more mountains. And then I got into a rain and stuff, and cold, and two days after, I was on that glacier, miserable and cold, I decided that when I climbed onto the minor mountains, I saw more mountains I had to make. So it wasn't as simple as I thought it would be. I went back to Seward, and they, of course, laughed at me, "Didn’t make it, huh?" I came back about four or five days after I had first left. Then I decided to go the easier, longer road.

Later on, at about 28 or so years ago, we made the trip, then, I was curious. It was a beautiful trip through the ice field that way. And they came down Exit Glacier, of course. Several famous Alaska climbers were on that trip…I talked them into it. We were on skis, except one fellow went on snowshoes. Well, we camped. We had to stay a day extra because of a snowstorm up there. We had to stay a day extra. We camped here, at a glacier, and we camped once or twice, maybe three camps on the glacier. I think that's all it was. Because you could go pretty fast with skis and all. It was beautiful clear weather and all, you know. Little stops for lunch, whatever. It was very pleasant. There was no race, no nothing, but we had good going. But we made enough of a... we drew enough attention with this trip that other people were viewing the peninsula from that perspective of crossing the field and doing all sorts of trips back here.