Chet18013
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Last week we took a jet boat trip from Wrangell, AK to LaConte glacier and back. I took over 300 photos on the trip and decided to see what the glacier looked like in B&W. Here's one I like.
This glacier is fed from a huge area that funnels down to this narrow face. The location of the face has been fairly stable for the last 10 years even as the glacier moves down and calves off. The glacier's rate of forward movement and breaking off is about 75 feet per day. The water depth at the face is over 700 feet. Our guide has seen huge chunks break off and then rise up in the air several hundred feet and explode apart from the pressure release.
This glacier is fed from a huge area that funnels down to this narrow face. The location of the face has been fairly stable for the last 10 years even as the glacier moves down and calves off. The glacier's rate of forward movement and breaking off is about 75 feet per day. The water depth at the face is over 700 feet. Our guide has seen huge chunks break off and then rise up in the air several hundred feet and explode apart from the pressure release.