North America, United States, Alaska, Canwell Glacier, Alaska Range

Publication Year: 1969.

Canwell Glacier, Alaska Range. During the late spring and through the summer of 1968 members of the Alaska Alpine Club assisted by many others carried in and built the second of a series of huts planned in the Delta Mountains of the eastern Alaska Range. The hut is of a modified A-frame construction and is twelve-feet-square. It is situated on a moraine overlooking the Canwell Glacier, about eight miles from the terminus at the Richardson Highway. The first hut in the series is the Thayer Hut eight miles up the Castner Glacier in the same general area. Of similar construction, it was built in 1962-63. Both huts are open to the public at 50c a night. Information may be obtained from the Alaska Alpine Club at Box 5-960, College, Alaska 99701.