Glacier pics!
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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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Date: 2009-06-23 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-23 10:44 pm (UTC)I've always wanted to see kittiwakes, and you got to see a whole rookery! Very awesome there. I bet it was extremely noisy and maybe smelly/dirty, too haha. The sea otters were sweet, too!
Exit Glacier looks HUGE...you look so small next to it heehee.
I heard about that earthquake...I saw it on the news. They said it was 5.4 or something like that.
Pretty purple and yellow flowers! The Hurricane Gulch Bridge looks pretty crazy...it looks like it's barely holding onto the edge of the cliff on the other side, but I'm sure it's quite secure.
The glacial water is SOO blue...SO PRETTY haha.
There are some really good pics of you as well as you and Ryan! Yaaay nice! Thanks so much for sharing! :D