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Glacier Camp - Knik Glacier Alaska
Lake
George National Natural Landmark |
The glacier is just a wee bit hard to
get to, so we'll take this boat upstream to its base area. |
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It's an air boat actually. The Knik river water runs
too fast, too shallow, and besides there's hunks of glacier floating in it to avoid or scoot over. |
All aboard! Let's get some air! |
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The water is moving rather quickly.
Here we have large chunks of 1000 year old ice floating by along with
the occasional not-so-old log. |
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We made it though. A nice 10 mile trek upriver
to the middle of nowhere. And nowhere has a lot of cool ice! A lot of ice melting to
be more precise (see: http://www.climatecrisis.net)
Let's leave the boat and head to camp. |
Ahh... Glacier Camp. Crazy
things these glaciers. They're cold you know. And very old. Let's get
some rest and check all this out in the morning.
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Wow, the Chugach Mountains right up to the glacier's edge. Let's head down to the river. |
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This whole river/glacier plateu is setup to hold a lot of water. This is a nice flat area next to the river in one of the calmer times of the year.
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Too bad all this is melting away because of global warming. We doubt it will return soon. |
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Let's head on home!
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