Sunday, May 31, 2009

Some pictures of my adventures:
This is in a helicopter flying over the Tongass National Forrest (largest one in the US) I saw about seven mountain goats around here.
This is the pilot Scott and the helicopter on 1 of the 39 glaciers in the Juneau Icefield. 
ME in front of the helicopter on the glacier. This Ice is over one mile deep. It takes 100 ft of snow to make 1 ft of glacier ice
ME straddling a crevasse that is over 150 ft deep. The rocks are pulverized pieces of mountains over 12 miles away.
ME in the helicopter. Ain't she sweet!


This is the closest I have gotten to seeing a bear. Don't worry I will see more in June and July during salmon season :)

This is a close-up view of glacier ice. The ice is blue underneath because there is no air inside and it is so dense that it has a perfect crystal structure that absorbs all color wavelengths except for the shortest--blue. :)
This is the group that I went wale watching with: Allen, ME, Maria (rommate), Cherish (roommate), Braidey
Me on a boat in Auke Bay with Mendenhall Glacier in the background.
Bald eagle on top, sea lions on bottom, Chilkat Mtn Range in the back.

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