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Exit Glacier

Exit Glacier is part of the Kenai Fjords National Park. It's a brief drive from the north end of Seward to the visitor center. Unfortunately, hikes to the toe (end) or edge (side) of the glacier take a chunk of time and we had already spend the afternoon in Seward and wanted to get back to Anchorage before too late (and all the restaurants close). So we only stopped at the visitor center (and chatted with the rangers) and an overlook and didn't get to the glacier itself, but we were relatively close. Also, it was quite buggy (mosquitos) and we weren't wearing our netting or bug spray.

Click on the thumbnail images to get larger ones (around 100-300K). Click on the "huge" link to get the full size pictures (around 3M). Almost 20 pictures included.

Alaska Pictures
Part I: The Trip Out and Fairbanks
Part II: Farmer's Market, Univeristy, Museum
Part III: Midnight Sun Run
Part IV: The Alaska Pipeline
Part V: Bug Collecting in the Tundra
Part VI: Ester Dome
Part VII: Chena Hot Springs
Part VIII: Eagle Summit
Part IX: Denali
Part X: Seward
Part XI: Exit Glacier
Part XII: Anchorage B&B's
Part XIII: Flattop Mountain, Anchorage
Part XIV: Flying in Fairbanks
Part XV: The Trip Home

Exit Glacier

Like I said above, it's a glacier, big and icy...

[Sign describing the glacier]
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[Exit Glacier]
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[Exit Glacier and a stream coming from it]
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The first pciture is of a sign describing Exit Glacier. The second is of Exit Glacier tiself. And the third is the glacier with the moraine in front of it leaves behind as it retreats.

[Mountain by Exit Glacier]
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[Mountain by Exit Glacier]
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[Mountain by Exit Glacier]
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A few pictures of the snow-capped ountains in the area. Number two and three look like a sort of panoramic shot.

[Clouds and mountain]
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[Mountain crossing]
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[Glacial stream in a moraine]
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Mountains and clouds, a look down the pull-off road with another mountain and moraine, and a glacial stream in a moraine.

[Moraine left from glacial retreat]
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[Glacier, stream, and moraine]
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[Hillside near Exit Glacier]
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More moraine. Exit Glacier, and a moraine and stream coming from it. And a hillside on the opposite side of the road as the glacier.

[Bear and moose sightings sign]
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[Visitor's center]
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[Trail map]
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The first picture is of a chalkboard at the visitor center that mentioned a bear and moose sighting from the previous day. So some people had seen bear and moose in a place I didn't go, on a day when I wasn't there. So I think that pretty much counts as a wildlife sighting... The second piture is of the visitor center. And the third picture is of yet another sign showing the trails by the glacier.

[Multi-picture, stitched shot of Exit Glacier]
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Finally, a stitched together composite of Exit Glacier taken from 6 different pictures. I wanted to get the mountain, the glacier, and the green, bordering it. I didn't really carae that much beyond that. So I just shot 6 pictures to cover the interesting stuff. I threw it into Photoshop and it was able to pull things together (I was impressed). I didn't do any editing to try to get it into some sort of more rectangular shape. At full resolution, there are some focus/resolution artifacts from where the different pictures join, but I still think it looks cool enough.


Alaska Pictures
Part I: The Trip Out and Fairbanks
Part II: Farmer's Market, Univeristy, Museum
Part III: Midnight Sun Run
Part IV: The Alaska Pipeline
Part V: Bug Collecting in the Tundra
Part VI: Ester Dome
Part VII: Chena Hot Springs
Part VIII: Eagle Summit
Part IX: Denali
Part X: Seward
Part XI: Exit Glacier
Part XII: Anchorage B&B's
Part XIII: Flattop Mountain, Anchorage
Part XIV: Flying in Fairbanks
Part XV: The Trip Home



This page last modified Aug 12, 2011.
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