| Do you know there are almost
4000 miles of paved roads in Alaska. How cool would it be to travel
them via motorcycle?
Just contact Dan Campbell at 907-770-5764 or visit the website at www.alaskamotorcycletours.com I highly recommend them -- he is my cousin! I've seen the bikes and they are truly magnificent. Now there's a cruise of a lifetime. |
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Here we are at Flat Top
Mountain just outside of Anchorage. Dan and Teresa Campbell my
cousins and me! The other picture is a view of Anchorage from Flat
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| As long as we are talking about cousins - Keith and Jackie
are Dan's mom and dad and live in Seward. Here they are in front of
Exit Glacier. The picture below was taken from their front porch at
6 a.m. Imagine waking up to that every day! The other picture
is that same front porch.
Keith and Jackie took me to Exit Glacier and you'll see those pictures soon. Before that, we saw a nest of eagles. The eaglet was in flight! Can you see him? |
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| Look close -- there he is! |  |
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| Exit Glacier is part of the Kenai Fjords National Park which
lies south and west of Seward, Alaska, 130 road miles south of Anchorage,
on the Seward Highway. You can also drive two hours from the
Kenai/Soldotna area to reach Seward.
An easy 1/2 mile walk will take you to the glacier's terminus. A bit steeper trail continues across moraines and bedrock to the face of the glacier |
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| The glacier appears to be 'Downy' blue. Why is that?
Because the red (long wavelengths) part of white light is absorbed by ice and the blue (short wavelengths) light is transmitted and scattered. The longer the path light travels in ice, the more blue it appears From http://nsidc.org/glaciers/information.html: Motion and change define a glacier's life. Glacial ice advances, then retreats. Glaciers grow and shrink in response to changing climate. Typically glacier movement and shape shifting occur over long periods of time (hundreds to thousands of years), but within historic memory such transformations in fewer than 100 years are not unknown. |
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