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Anchorage, Alaska Glacier Flight
Photographs by Carol Shaffer
On July 23, 2003, I went on Rust's Air Service's Knik Glacier flightseeing trip
out of Anchorage, Alaska, following a 7-day cruise up the coast on the Carnival Spirit.
Here are a few of the pictures I took on that flight. You probably know that there are a lot of
glaciers in Alaska, but I think you'll be surprised at how many
this Web site has information on!
For you airplane enthusiasts, my friend Murray tells me that the plane we
flew in, N68083, is a classic Alaska bush plane, a 1958 Dehavilland DHC-2 Beaver Mark 1, powered
by a 450-horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-985 series rotary engine.
The Knik Glacier, feeding the Knik River.
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One of the salmon spawning rivers.
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The glaciers pick up so much gravel that it's sometimes hard to tell where the glacier is anymore.
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Magnificent rivers of ice flowing out of the Chugach Mountains!
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A beautiful example of a pair of medial moraines, formed by the gravel from 3 glaciers meeting.
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The meltwater ponds trapped among the peaks and crevasses on the glacier show you the color of the water.
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The vegetation line above the terminal moraine of this glacier shows how much it has receded in recent years.
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Stopping for lunch, Alaska-style...
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...at the Best Western Lake Lucille Inn.
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Headed across Cook Inlet, back to Anchorage.
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Downtown Anchorage, home of one of Wyland's huge whale murals.
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