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Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska #3358

Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska #3358

A heads up… this weekend fall colors should be peaking at the glacier! I took this photo on September 12 several years ago. This Saturday is September 12 and currently the weather forecast for this Friday through Monday includes some sunshine! Get out and enjoy the Mendenhall Glacier, autumn colors, and the break from the incessant rain of this past summer. This photo illustrates the month of August in my Juneau Alaska 2021 Calendar. Both the 2021 Juneau and Alaska Calendars can be found ...
Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska #3357

Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska #3357

Bob Engelbrecht treks along an icy ledge next to a deep blue glacial lake on the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. Last week Bob Engelbrecht and Reed Stoops invited Jan McPhetres and me along on a photo trek on the Mendenhall Glacier. Bob moved to Juneau in 1981, arriving in a Hughes 500 helicopter. Originally, Bob came to provide helicopter support to Greens Creek Mine on Admiralty Island. But when friends and family came to visit him, he would fly them up to the Mendenhall Glacier. ...
Jokulhlaup, Mendenhall River, Juneau, Alaska #3356

Jokulhlaup, Mendenhall River, Juneau, Alaska #3356

Since 2011 the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area has been experiencing glacier lake outburst floods called jokulhlaups. A jokulhlaup is an Icelandic word describing a glacier event where a large body of water created by rainfall and glacier melt collects in a big lake behind a glacier ice dam. Eventually the water pressure gets too great and the ice dam breaks, flooding the lake and river. This summer the jokulhlaup started to peak on Friday, July 31. The level of Mendenhall Lake rose ...
Black Bear, Anan Creek, Alaska #3355

Black Bear, Anan Creek, Alaska #3355

I am thrilled to announce that National Wildlife Magazine is featuring one of my favorite images on their cover of the August-September 2020 issue, which I call “Drizzly Bear...Reigning over the Tongass.” I have photographed the bears at Anan Creek in Southeast Alaska for 13 years. Anan is located in the middle of the Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest (with a huge emphasis on “rain”). This bear was photographed in a pounding downpour from the viewing ...
Dock Jump, Juneau, Alaska, #3354

Dock Jump, Juneau, Alaska, #3354

This image was taken in the late 1990’s when my sons, Gabe and Owen, were still in school.  They would often celebrate the end of the school year by jumping off the downtown Juneau docks and invited a friend to jump with them. Of course, they would only jump on a sunny day and I was usually invited along to document the event. In this particular year, Owen (in the middle) jumped to celebrate his graduating from elementary school and moving on to middle school. I think he was 10 years ...
Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

Margerie Glacier is probably the most visited tidewater glacier in the world. During a regular, non-COVID summer, over half a million cruise ship passengers cruise up to this glacier and spend a couple hours hanging out. About a mile wide, Margerie Glacier is 21 miles long and stands 250 feet above and 100 feet below tideline. I first visited Glacier Bay National Park in August 1980. Then in May 1981, along with Joel Bennet and John Howe, I spent 10 days on a zodiac boat trip in the park ...
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