Students in this Glaciology Summer School course consistently have their noses to the grindstone, so to speak, with lectures and project work each day, but in the evenings, there is a little time to relax (and it stays light outside very late). McCarthy, for being a tiny town with a population only in the double digits, offers a fine variety of ways to take a break. Sometimes it might be more along the lines of what you might have in a bigger city (like live music), and sometimes you have to be creative and make your own fun (like swimming in a chilly glacier-fed lake). My personal favorite is the fact that McCarthy had a town softball game on Friday night, when everyone in town is there to either play or watch, all within sight of a glacier looming in the mountains above. That’s not something you do every day. Neither is a “Zombie Prom,” currently advertised on a white board outside the town saloon for next Friday. All in good fun in McCarthy.
