Cool

Red Flag-Alaska was going on while we were there and a lot of the joint Pacific Air Forces conduct training over the Alaska Range. They're hard to spot sometimes, but cool to watch when we see them.

Cracks in the Moraine

Looking over the Black Rapids Glacier at McGinnis Peak from a medial moraine. Eastern Alaska Range.

Walking along the moraine

Any time there was good weather we just had to get out of the tent for as long as possible.

Different colors

The right is a stream along the northern moraine with mountain run-off, the left is run-off from the glacier.

Glacier Stream

There were quite a few large streams to cross on the Black Rapids Glacier this year with absolutely no englacial drainage to help reduce the water at the surface. At least they are pretty to look at. The channel here was quite a bit deeper and wider than it looked and this little island of ice with the precariously balanced boulder proved to be a useful crossing point.

The Road Home

Rocky moraine on the Black Rapids Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range. You'd barely know there was 8 inches of fresh snow just a few days before. June 2014.