Rain Pants or Not?

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Most concerned with the Tracy Arm excursion. Will want to be outside sometimes. Also, Ketchikan for walking around and to catch my float plane tour.

No, you don't need rain pants, particularly for what you've mentioned. I lived in Alaska for 38 years and did multiple Alaska cruises, used them twice and never on a cruise.

We had lightweight Frogg Togg 2 piece rainsuits. About $20 each. Never needed any of it but glad it was on the shelf just in case. Was not going to stay indoors if we had rain in Glacier Bay. The Gods smiled on us with good weather during the week.

Waterproof shoes are more important. We hiked in intermittent rain in Skagway on one cruise. The best things I had were my waterproof shoes and a good quality rain poncho. It was warm enough to wear shorts, and the poncho kept them dry.

Been in Alaska since last Tuesday making our way down from Fairbanks to Seward before we cruise on Friday. We bought $20 Frogg Toggs from Walmart & wore them on our helicopter/glacier hike yesterday. Definitely worth it. It wasn’t raining but we had to kneel on the ice, went into an ice cave where we brushed against the walls, etc. We also would have worn them the day before on our heli/glacier dog sled excursion but it was cancelled due to extreme wind. We re-booked a similar excursion for the cruise & will wear them then. Lastly, we’ll either wear or bring them on our 9-hour Kenai Fjord tour tomorrow.

So all that said, I highly recommend them if you’re doing anything on a glacier & wouldn’t mind having them for other activities although I’m sure you could survive without them if you really don’t wanna spend the money.