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week 33+
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being silly at the falls - great day to be outside!
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Thunderbird Falls - about a mile hike in up Glenn Hwy
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Jason dressed for a day in the 50s - shorts came out when it hit the 40s!
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gorge lookout - Eklutna River is not quite melted yet
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we're at 9.5 hours of daylight - get the vitamin D while you can
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anchorage in October
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10/23 - nice sunny day in the 40s
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even the little plants fighting for life in a post-glacial world were turning colors
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mix of rocks and ice
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time to head back
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back at the beginning - looking over what we accomplished
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face of the glacier - caverns
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stream coming out of the glacier
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the stream led back into another part of the glacier
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heading back on the trail
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face of the glacier - shaped by running water
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many levels and layers
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face of the glacier - peep hole
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we took advantage of the sunny day
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great hike
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fall colors
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view from where we stopped to get some ice
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we jumped over this crack - reminding us we were on a glacier
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the rocks were on the ice
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Jason prepping for a rock climb
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waterfalls
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chipping at some glacier ice
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looking back again
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now Jason is in the lower right - still moving forward
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I was there too - that's my shoe in the snow
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Jason was racing back to the car so the ice doesn't melt
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looking back at Portage Lake and the climb so far
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break in the glacier - river runs through it
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nice day to be out and about
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soaking up the vitamin D
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still going - he wanted to get to the good, blue glacier ice
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climb up snow or rocks? we did both
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sunny day - yes, Jason was fine in shorts
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end of glacier in one spot
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pretty vast when you look at Jason in the lower left corner
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first look back - we just walked over that snow
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this glacier had a lot of rocks on top and soil in some places
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we hiked ON the glacier - we had a ways to go
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we got to the face of the glacier, but Jason wanted good blue ice...so this was the beginning
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great easy trail up to face of glacier
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Byron Glacier Trailhead - supposed to be a mile in and a mile out -we took a longer trip
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quick stop at Portage Lake - we were here 6 years ago - that glacier in teh distance is Robert Burns glacier
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love this hwy
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lots of yellows and more oranges and reds this time
