Glacier pics!

Jun 23, 2009 10:45



Driving through the Alaska Range




Mountains and the Nenana River





Hurricane Gulch Bridge. It cost like a million dollars to build


View from the bridge


Hurricane Creek?











That's the..Susitna River?





Terminus of Ruth Glacier!!








Chulitna River?


Turnagain Arm at low tide. There were bald eagles on the mud (the mud flats there are dangerous cause it's like quicksand). It's named that cause Captain Cook had to "turn around again" when he got there haha











Glacier!


Portage Lake with icebergs! Portage Glacier is behind the mountain to the right. The one in the middle is Burns Glacier


The tunnel to Whittier


At Whittier


Glacial waters!!


The harbor with Sapphire Princess cruise ship. Our hotel room had a view of the ship and we got to watch it leave!


Glacier above the harbor. In town I thought I saw something white up there haha


I think this one is Tebenkof Glacier





Coming up on College Fjord. On that side there iiiis..Barnard, Wellesely, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Smith..and Harvard is over there somewhere. On one side they're named after men's colleges and on the other women's


Harvard Glacier!!! LOOK AT ITS MORAINES!


Uhh..that one might be one on the other side. Maybe Dartmouth or Baby


I think this one's Yale





*dies* (you can see the dirty ice from the moraines!!)





:D


Harvard and Yale








Sea otters on the ice!


Sea otters


Cascade Glacier. The video from Margerie guy shows it going all the way into the water..eep


Cascade and Barry


Cascade, Barry and Coxe


A bunch of hanging glaciers. If you can see it there's a rock glacier too (it's in the middle down by the water)





SURPRISE GLACIER :D (it has a medial moraine! *drools*)








:D :D











Going back to the Barry Arm glaciers


Poor Cascade..*sniff*








Trying to get its "bumps" as it goes up (or down if you wanna think of it that way) the mountain. It has moraines too hehe














Glacier ice! Someone had got it out of the water for us haha


Nom nom nom (that ice could be 100 years old!)





Kittiwake rookery














Haha


Haha aw


Portage Lake in the storm :P





The face of Portage is a half mile wide! It has retreated a LOT though


Eeeee haha








Darn guy messed up the pic! Haha








I was surprised to see Ryan up there


I was FREEZING in this picture haha


Greeeeen


Exit Glacier


Stylin' :P


SEE THOSE DANG RIVER CHANNELS I HAD TO CROSS haha


Striations!





Blueeeee. Apparently the glacier was dirty from Mount Redoubt :P














Glacier ice hehe


TOUCHING EXIT GLACIER YEAAAAH baby :D




















Seward harbor


Anchorage and the Chugach Mountains. Apparently yesterday there was an earthquake near Willow! I remember driving through Willow! And I was in Anchorage when the earthquake happened! Apparently it was felt all the way to Fairbanks..woww. I didn't feel anything..maybe cause I was in the car


Haha these are just randomly by the side of the road :P

Pic of the day:



I also have videos but I haven't finished uploading them yet..will hopefully post them tomorrow

Tsimshian: Southeast Indians who migrated over from British Columbia in 1887. About one thousand Tsimshians live in Alaska, most of them in the town of Metlakatla on Anette Island

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