LeConte Glacier is a massive, fast-moving tidewater glacier nestled deep within a steep granite fjord inside the Tongass National Forest. Known historically to the Tlingit as Hutli (the Thunder Bird), the glacier is famous for its thunderous calving events and the immense icebergs that drift out of the bay.

Because the underwater terminal moraine creates a shallow bar at the mouth of the fjord, massive bergs become grounded, creating a floating sculpture gallery of brilliant sapphire-blue ice. Navigating the fjord brings travelers up close to harbor seals resting on ice floes with their pups, sheer 3,000-foot granite walls lined with waterfalls, and the roaring face of the glacier itself.

LeConte is recognized by glaciologists as one of the fastest-moving glaciers in the world relative to its size, continually pushing ice down from the Stikine Icefield and calving massive slabs into the sea.

Watching an iceberg calve or listening to the "white thunder" echo off monolithic stone walls creates a primal connection to the forces that sculpted the Alaskan landscape, making LeConte one of Southeast Alaska’s most profound natural attractions.