RUTH GLACIER!!!

Dec 15, 2008 12:09

I've been waiting for a clear day to fly and see Ruth Glacier. On Saturday it was but I found out too late and mom still wasn't feeling well. The weather was supposed to say good on Sunday and mom said we could go if she was feeling better. Well..she was! So we went haha. This time the flightseeing place was at Talkeetna. So we flew up near McKinley and saw RUTH GLACIER OMG!! We flew down it like three times haha. :D I was taking pictures like crazy! And I took videos too! (Ruth is one of my all-time favorite glaciers :D) Of course driving back home it was dark but it was rather neat and pretty seeing the mountains with moonlight on them and stuff




The sun was in our eyes like the whole time :P





Nenana








The wind was way strong haha








An almost frozen river


TERMINAL MORAINE OF RUTH GLACIER HECK YEAH!!! *SQUEALS* (mom said the pilot was speaking my language haha :D)


There were trees growing on it!





Ruth!





Tokositna Glacier. The three mountains are Foraker, Hunter and McKinley


McKinley. The pink is called alpenglow


Lateral moraine!! Why I thought last time it looked like someone was driving on it or something..its moraines were covered with snow :P


Mount Foraker. It looks like someone cut off the top of it haha


This one had a weird flat top unlike most of the others..








Medial moraine?








Mountains in Ruth's Great Gorge :D


Great Gorge! It's deeper than the Grand Canyon haha





One of the mountains in the Great Gorge is called the Moose's Tooth haha











Blue-turquoise glacierness!











Part of the Don Sheldon Ampitheater? (basically a bowl thing where snow collects..it feeds Ruth Glacier. Yummy. And Don Sheldon was a bush pilot)


More of it?








WOOO!!!














Ruth moves 3 feet a day!





















I HAD MY PIC TAKEN IN FRONT OF RUTH GLACIER EEEE haha


In front of the terminal moraine











Me with the pilot



Videos!

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Today's stupidest quote: Don't get me wrong, everything the media writes is not wrong. But I'd say 99 percent of it is wrong, in my opinion, but I don't read the newspaper, so I don't know. I hear things, though (Bears defensive back RW McQuarters). Yesterday's: Please hold a dog in your arms while walking in the lobby (sign in Tokyo apartment building lobby)

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