6 College Fjord (139)
ADG--Another darn glacier, two, actually, or more.
Capture Date: Aug 8, 2017 07:11 PM•Views: 19
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6 College Fjord (142)
Tired of glaciers yet? Well, then, I am glad I skipped a lot of them.
Capture Date: Aug 8, 2017 07:22 PM•Views: 19
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6 College Fjord (145)
This one, shown immediately before, had a n extensive network of streams out of it. Not to politicize the photo, but notice how the glacier has receded (global warming?) in the immediate past, probably the last few years, as evidenced by the lack of new vegetation on the area just below the glacier.
Capture Date: Aug 8, 2017 07:26 PM•Views: 19
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6 College Fjord (164)
I am fascinated by waterfalls and rapidly running water. Again, Not politicize the photo, but notice how the glacier has receded (global warming?) in the immediate past, probably the last few years, as evidenced by the lack of new vegetation on the area just below the glacier.
Capture Date: Aug 8, 2017 07:54 PM•Views: 20
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Prince William Sound Bligh Reef Valdez Oil Spill
Bligh Reef just outside of Valdez. Using "Calipers" software, it is about 24 miles from the NE shore (along the road) to the leading edge of the Reef. The Exxon Valdez sure did not make it very far after filling up in Valdez.
I have only a blurry shot of it taken from the high speed catamaran, and it is not worth showing.
Upload Date: Nov 6, 2017 07:38 AM•Views: 17
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8 Catamaran to Valdez (12)
Oil loading facility on NE shore of Valdez harbor.
Capture Date: Aug 9, 2017 12:23 PM•Views: 19
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8 Catamaran to Valdez (13)
Tanker at loading facility
Capture Date: Aug 9, 2017 12:28 PM•Views: 19
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8 Catamaran to Valdez (14)
To the left of the previous picture is Valdez, Alaska. A very small town, mostly tourist trade and oil port workers. Our tour took us here to catch the bus for the land part of the tour.
Capture Date: Aug 9, 2017 12:48 PM•Views: 19
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8 Catamaran to Valdez (15)
Valdez, Alaska. A very small town, mostly tourist trade and oil port workers. The harbor is not large enough for a large cruise ship. These are typical berths, and the catamaran was not much larger than these boats.
Capture Date: Aug 9, 2017 12:49 PM•Views: 20
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9 RichardsonHwyTOThompsonPass to CopperRLodge (18)
After lunch in Valdez we boarded the bus and drove to our next stop. This waterfall was along the Richardson Hwy To cross Thompson Pass to Princess Copper River Lodge. This was the longest bus ride, and it took all afternoon to get the the Princess Copper River Lodge.
Capture Date: Aug 9, 2017 02:55 PM•Views: 19
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9 RichardsonHwyTOThompsonPass to CopperRLodge (19)
They reserved the right front seat for photographers, but I took this from the next seat back. Later I used the front seat often. Thompson Pass is a 2,805 foot-high (855 meter-high) gap in the Chugach Mountains northeast of Valdez, Alaska.[1] It is the snowiest place in Alaska, recording http:// inches (1,401 cm) of snow per year on average.[2] In the winter of 1952–1953, http:// inches (2,474 cm) of snow fell—the most ever recorded in one season at one location in Alaska.
Capture Date: Aug 9, 2017 02:56 PM•Views: 20
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9 RichardsonHwyTOThompsonPass to CopperRLodge (21)
Thompson Pass was named in 1899 by U.S. Army captain William Abercrombie "in compliment to Hon. Frank Thomson, of Pennsylvania", but he spelled the name "Thompson" on his sketched map, and that spelling stuck. The pass had been used by Alaska Native Ahtna people for generations prior to Abercrombie's arrival, but he marked and defined a trail through the pass for use by Klondike Gold Rush miners. This is near the summit.
Big outdoors. The Colorado Rockies are beautiful, but higher, and the peaks are more horizontally adjacent to each other. In Alaska, the whole country is big and spread out over a tremendously large space.
Capture Date: Aug 9, 2017 03:15 PM•Views: 20
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9 RichardsonHwyTOThompsonPass to CopperRLodge (30)
Worthington Glacier
Capture Date: Aug 9, 2017 03:34 PM•Views: 19
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9 RichardsonHwyTOThompsonPass to CopperRLodge (31)
Worthington Glacier with a big network of streams out of it. Note the surrounding rock that has been scoured relatively smooth and rounded by the formally advancing glacier, and the very few trees that have sprouted since the glacier retreated from the bare rock.
Capture Date: Aug 9, 2017 03:35 PM•Views: 19
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9 RichardsonHwyTOThompsonPass to CopperRLodge (53)
On the Richardson Highway on the way to the Princess Copper River Lodge we passed 4 large mountains in the distance. This is two of them.
I have their names on a later photo.
Capture Date: Aug 9, 2017 05:02 PM•Views: 19
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