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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow, the Chugach Mountains right up to the glacier's edge. Let's head down to the river.
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.
Note the fast flow of the river
Too bad all this is melting away because of global warming. We doubt it will return soon.
