Sailing north into Glacier Bay we were greeted by Tufted Puffins, Steller's Sea Lions and gloriously clear sunny weather. The Fairweather Range is perhaps the most inaccurately named mountain chain on earth but today it lived up to the name given to it by Captain Cook during his exploratory visit in 1778. The brilliant white pyramid of Mount Fairweather, the eponymous peak of the range, towered above the neighboring peaks, rising 15,530 feet only 14 miles from the coast of the Gulf of Alaska.