Mendenhall Glacier
Mendenhall Glacier with Nugget falls off to the right.
There were very nice trails and signs at the Visitor Center. I could imagine hordes and hordes of tourists here. Today there weren't too many and they were mostly staying close to the visitor center and not venturing out onto the trails.
Yes, it's been raining all day and you can tell that this is typical by looking at the vegetation around here.
I hiked up, up, up to look down on the glacier and lake. One of the large icebergs that had calved off from the seracs (to bust out some glacier terms) had a large rock on top of it. This rock was on its way to becoming an... Erratic! It was probably the most exciting thing I saw all day. I always have marveled at the large erratics dotting the Pacific Northwest, but this was actually seeing the process of how they had gotten there!
Pretty flowers over near the Mendenhall Lake campground.
I love these ice chunks. I could be an ice-chunk-ologist. Um, maybe there's a better word for that.
Laura Valaas at the classic, unavoidable tourist photo op at Mendenhall Glacier.
posted by LAV at 15:16
2 Comments:
Crazy. I have been marveling at the creation of Erratics lately too. Just saw one south east of Canmore one Sunday.
That ferry ride sounds pretty snazzy.
Geology is pretty intriguing, I must agree.
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