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Alaska Knik Glacier Jun 2008
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While most business travel takes you to some pretty mundane places, this is not one of them. A trip to Anchorage has some definite appeal to an outdoor/wildlife photographer, and if one of your peers also has an airplane, you hit the jackpot. I was working away on a nice afternoon and got an offer I could not refuse. Jim told me he has an airplane and if I would like to go for a glacier flyover. It took about maybe 3 nano-seconds to say yes!!! We departed from Lake Hood, which lays the claim to the busiest floatplane base in the world, but not off the water but on the gravel runway they have for water challenged airplanes (Jim had not yet attached his floats). We flew north east up the Cook Inlet, over the Knik Glacier and then returned for a nice dinner at the Glacier Brew House. My many thanks to Jim for the opportunity and his expert flying skills that made the trip a memorable one. |
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Cook Inlet
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| Departing Lake Hood |
Inlet and Talkeetna Range |
Inlet Sands |
Pioneer Mtn |
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Knik Glacier
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| Inbound to the Glacier |
Glacier Headwall |
From Lake George |
Soft Evening Reflections |
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This glacier is just 50 miles north of Anchorage with an ice field 25 miles long and 5 across, feeding the Knik River which empties into the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet. It is told that early pioneers would wager on the jökulhlaup date (Icelandic term for a glacial lake outburst flood) which would disrupt water traffic between Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.
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Final Shots
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Jim and his Taylorcraft |
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