After avoiding Roberts Peak all spring/summer, I finally gave in and was pleasantly surprised... There is a tram that begins in downtown Juneau, for which you can fork out twenty or thirty bucks to ride 1/3 of the way up the mountainside. Or you can start hiking at the bottom, sneak your way past the crowd at the tram terminal, and continue up this ridge where your only company will be the most sizeable ravens I've ever seen. And one other guy, who had a pretty sly sense of humor, so I was happy to share the peak... Since there wasn't much else for the ravens to do up top, they took to some fun in the sun aeronautical acrobatics. Almost as though they were addicted to flying high and playing aerial tricks on each other. If you've ever read the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull, you wouldn't be able to think of anything other than ol' Jonny Seagull while watching these ravens. (And if you haven't read it and are in the mood for a literary pick-me-up, you should pick it up)..
Things became a bit knifey toward the peak... or as the other guy on the summit phrased it, "Things got a little creepy back there, didn't they?" 
View from the Gastineau Ridge into the Gastineau Channel and Stephen's Passage 
Granite Creek Basin from the saddle between Gastineau Peak and Roberts Peak
Chilkat Range and the Lynn Canal from the Gastineau Ridge
Taku Inlet and the Devil's Paw, on the boundary between Alaska and B.C.
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