Advancing or retreating?

Is it making a quick exit? Coming or going, it's beautiful.

Bucky's continued mission to validate the advancement of the world's glaciers was dealt a severe set-back upon our visit to the Exit Glacier outside Seward, AK. Seward is surrounded by the Harding Ice Field and Kenai Fjord National Park. These same ice fields had been visable to us from Homer and it was apparent to Bucky after cocktail hour in Homer, that the glaciers we could see, high in the Kenai Mountains, were indeed significantly advancing. However, after our visit to the Exit Glacier, this may not in fact be true. Perhaps even more disturbing to glacier experts like Bucky, is the terminology currently being used to describe the front edge of a glacier. On the signage around the Exit Glacier, this leading edge was labelled "the toe" when according to Bucky it is more aptly named "the tongue". Afterall, it distinctly resembles the human tongue when extended out of the mouth, which is often the reaction of people after hearing Bucky's theory of glacial advancement.