Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Weather watching Jan 2014 Snow, 3 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Here's a small "cave" with me in it...not reaally an ice cave...

This was taken in AK at the very "tongue" (end of) the Exit Glacier---
the only glacier one can access by car--and along hike to get to this.

Here, is the end of this majestic Glacier where it's melt becomes a trickle--
and then a stream--and then a river which, eventually, ends up in the sea.

It is not a "cave" at all. it is a sort of "wash out" on the side of it as the Glacier melts.
The blue color of the ice is due to the huge compression the ice experiences.
I think it was awesome!! This was all taken in July, 2007.

1--Me at the "cave'
2--The worn our, dirty end of the Exit Glacier
3--My sister (who lives in AK) and our cousin's DH, from Latvia at the "tongue".
4--The trickles become streans--and the streams become small rivers...
and---the rivulets from many glaciers join to become a wide body of shallow water....
5--...which becomes a river and flows into the sea.

#4 and #5 were taken from a small airplane we rented to fly over the glaciers...
Talk about a humbling feeling.....looking down on all of this.