In June of 2016, Annie Boucher was hiking the Lemon Creek Trail with a group of students in Juneau, Alaska. The trail, which begins behind a Home Depot, meanders through the sodden brush of the Tongass National Forest, into treeless meadows and to the base of a glacier. It is not easy. With several miles and thousands of feet to climb, it could take the group 10 hours just to reach the snow, and two to three more to reach their final destination, a sheet metal camp on a windy ridge high above the southeast Alaskan town. |