Alaska
A random couple of photos from Alaska last fall. It first I thought this was just a terminal morraine with piles of gravel and debris that the glacier had pushed out and then vegetation had grown over. Except that the glacier was still there, there were trees growing on top of ice hills and streams cutting through the ice. These are not small features either. And these trees are normal sized trees. Isn't the world amazing?
Those hills in the background... made of ice. covered in full-sized treed and brush.
posted by LAV at 10:21
3 Comments:
Thanks for giving a sense of scale - otherwise I'd think the trees were just brush.
Pictures can't do it justice.
Don't quote me, but it's my understanding that the typical mental image of the whole north covered by barren continental ice when the people who are now Native Americans crossed over also had areas just like you photographed. Whole forests on top of the ice sheets.
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