2014-06-23

Moving Day
Sleeping bags and pads insulate the ice better than the thin layer of soil and rock on the moraine, so the sides of the tent melt down and after a few days you find your face pressed up against the top of the tent. So, after 10 days we need to find a new location to move the tents.
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McGinnis Peak
Looking straight up the glacier and icefalls to McGinnis Peak. This was the first day on this trip that conditions allowed us to get this far west.
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GPS
One of our continuous (year-round) GPS stations on the main branch of the glacier.
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McGinnis Peak
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Boulder
A big boulder in a big stream
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Channel
Alaska Range
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Crossing streams
Andrew displays perfect form at one of the numerous channel crossings on the Black Rapids Glacier.
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Blue streams
Surface stream on the Black Rapids Glacier in the Alaska Range
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