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Ice Bowl

A glacier hiker (upper right) stands on an ice cliff for scale above an amazing blue pool.
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Blackstone, Northwestern and Concordia Glaciers

At least 5 glaciers slide out of icefields that are 6 miles wide, in the back of Blackstone Bay.
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The Laurence Glacier

This glacier looks fun in summer. There is apparently a lake at the top of that knoll in front of the ice and the glacier empties out in streams on both sides of the knoll.
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Icy Buttress

A magnificent ice capped buttress on the flanks of Denali. Alaska Range, Denali National Park
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Glacial Collapse

A block of glacier has broken off and smashed into a million pieces on cliffs above the ocean.
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Northwestern Birds

A flock of birds fly through the rain towards massive seracs on the Northwestern Glacier.
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Laurence Glacier Waterfalls

Water pours down into a crevasse from higher snowfields
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Spencer Glacier

Winter offers the opportunity to walk or ride across Spencer Lake and visit the glacier up close. We endured an hours long blizzard to get here but it paid off when the storm magically disappeared.
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Northwestern Glacier (from below)

The size of glaciers can be very hard to get across in a photo. I hope the spruce trees here that are far closer than the ice give an idea of scale.
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Massive Crevasse Field

A Huge Crevasse Field on the upper reaches of the Kahiltna Glacier, Denali National Park
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Granite Terraces

High up in the Talkeetna Mountains above Snowbird Glacier recent melting has divided the glacier into separate pieces and exposed terraced steps of granite. These "new" areas of land are extremely unstable as rocks and boulders have been very gently placed on top of each other from slowly melting ice. You must always be prepared for your footing to collapse or shift.
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Glacier Study 18

I've lost track of these numbers. A stream emerges from an ice cave barely visible behind rubble on the far right. The rocks glisten in the rain.
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Melting Snowbird

A melt pool at the new toe of a severed portion of the dying Snowbird Glacier. In the distance and icefall on another portion of the glacier is nearly severed next to an imposing granite tower.
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The Green Line

A glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park falls down into icy water next to a mossy cliff.
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The Bear Glacier

The mighty Bear Glacier glides down from the Harding Icefields behind a full grown forest.
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Sunset Wall

A hiker admires a great wall of ice on the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska.
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Icicles

A lot of Alaskan streams are frozen under several feet of ice in winter but there are usually areas where the water never freezes. Once winter i wanted to see if i could get pictures from down in these holes and even in the tunnels.
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Glacier Study 17

Snow and ice patterns from sun, rain, wind, and radiative heating from the rocks on the ice. In this case it reminds me of an electron microscope scan.
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Black and White and Stony Bay

An interesting pattern Black piles of stones scattered across the ice as if they dripped into place.
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Mortal Moulin

I was shocked at the size of this gargantuan moulin at the top of the Snowbird Glacier. It had two waterfalls pouring into it and i could not see the bottom. A bad sign for an already dying Glacier.
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High Altitude Melt Pool

Meltwater collects along a depression in the snow near base camp below Mt. McKinley.
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Sheridan Glacier 1

The Sheridan Glacier flows out of the far eastern border of the Chugach Mountains.
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Desert Mesas of the High Arctic

These are mountains known only to mountaineers. Ahtna has what anywhere else would be called a desert mesa coming off the side of it.
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Sheridan Reflections

Melt Pools on Sheridan Glacier make you feel even more like you have left behind the rest of the world.
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Whitewater and Ice

A frothy stream carves it's own icy banks even as it's splashing freezes back on t those same banks.
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Towards Insignificance

Several flocks of birds fly towards the massive ice cliffs of the Northwestern Glacier, until they simply disappeared .
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Sheridan Glacier 2

Clouds and Ice, two and the same.
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Matanuska Fall 3

Passing storms on a fall day in the Matanuska Valley
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Mt. Ahtna 2

Numerous Glacier come off the sides of Mt. Ahtna and add ice to the Nabesna Glacier.
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Sheridan Reflections 1

Walking among the melt pools on the Sheridan Glaciers feels like walking along the edge of the world.
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Sheridan Reflections 2

Bright rusty stones poke through a reflecting pool of seemingly shallow but cloudy water.
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Water and Ice

Two waterfalls cascade from high up on Mt. Muir, to the Surprise Glacier below. The Glacier pours into Harriman Fjord, a part of Prince William Sound.
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Sheridan Glacier

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Ice Valleys 1

High up in the ice plateaus of the Wrangles is a vast network of valleys filled with ice, all merging together in this region to become the mighty Nabesna Glacier, the longest non polar valley glacier on Earth.
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Peek at Denali

The clouds part briefly offering a peak the the higher slopes and granite walls.
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Tokositna Glacier

The impressive upper reaches of the Tokositna Glacier are a textbook study of lateral and medial moraines.
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Snow Cave

It was hard to tell if this was a glacial remnant or a semi permanent snow field.
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Ruth Glacier

Flying across the lower reaches of the Ruth Glacier. I could have had a great time if they could have dropped me off here for some exploration.
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Ruth Tributary

This steep mountain valley makes up part of the "headwaters" of the Ruth Glacier.
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Icy Black Hole

Icicles reach down into a semi-permanent hole in the water surface.
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The Harding Icefields

The Harding Icefields are one of the most amazing places i've ever been. It's a relentless gruelling hike to get up there but when you finally come over the last hill and see that vista, you feel like have walked right into Antarctica or Greenland. This image is not even the main icefields but a small area where the Exit Glacier begins it's decent. To the right, the icefields continue for 40 miles.
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Northwestern Waterall 2

A vertically oriented image of the waterfall pouring out of the Northwestern Glacier.
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Circular Entrance

The entrance to the "snow" cave (it was actually ice) had a circular shape
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Conveyor of Mountains

These dark stripes, the lateral moraines are rubble stripped from the mountains. The rubble is thick, on the surface several dump trucks of thickness, and they usually continue well below the surface. They stretch all the way down the glacier, 35 miles from this point. All of that rock has been removed from the mountains. It's a detailed logbook of erosion. It's all right there, neatly organized, easily measured, and it's a huge sum.
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Udder of Ice

Seriously, these icicles look like they should be milked. They're already dripping.
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Ice Birds Wing

We flew over a series of ice caps with borders rectangular in nature. These icefields, several of which are visible in this picture, were recently connected.
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Ruth Glacier 2

Flying across the lower reaches of the Ruth Glacier. I could have had a great time if they could have dropped me off here for some exploration.
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Laughlin Glacier and Mountain

Laughlin is a dramatic hanging glacier near the US/Canadian border north of Skagway.
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The Mighty Bear Glacier

The Bear Glacier is a "large" glacier, in some places several miles wide. It pours into a quickly growing lake behind the full grown forest in the distance.
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First Snow at Matanuska

Fresh fuel for glaciers, a blanket of white on a fall day in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska.
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Ruth Glacier (close up)

From the right distance the surface looks almost like a satellite image.
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Nabesna Mid Glacial Lake

This lake is a new phenomenon that was only 2 summers old by the time i came across it. I think what is happening is that the downward side of the lake is a small ridge and the glacier has lost enough mass that it can no longer ride over the top of it, halting it's forward movement. But, there could also be an ice dam somewhere in the area.
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Glacial Remains

What is left after the roof collapses on an ice cave and the glacier retreats up the side of a cliff.
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Fluvial Snow Cave

A cold stream rushes beneath it's frozen former water level.
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Ice Intrusion

A hanging glacier of blue ice in Kenai Fjords crumbles farther away from the ocean every day.
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Matanuska Fire

Fins of ice and seracs lie below clouds upvalley and hazy smoke from summer fires. Forest fires can contribute to melting glaciers.
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Snow Dunes

Huge snow drifts above Portage Lake
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Blue River

An aquamarine river carves a snaking canyon through the Matanuska River
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Blue River 2

An aquamarine river carves a snaking canyon through the Matanuska River
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Crevasse Field 1

These enormous crevasses here are large enough to drop houses into.
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Blackstone Bay

After spending 6 hours hiking to and climbing up the Burns Glacier, the view of Blackstone Bay, after crossing the pass, was breathtaking. Very few people have ever seen it in summer.
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Peruvian Glacier 2

This view shows a very nice piece of property near the glacier.
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Matanuska Glacier Trekking

An explorer journeys across a sea of ice in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska
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