ice cave

Ice cave: Here are a couple of shots of the ice cave. I fell on the ice and my camera hit the ground - hard. My camera came to life a couple of hours later, but it played dead for a while. The top photo is the pattern of a lot of ice on top of the ice cave.
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Broken Camera?

I went to Mendenhall Glacier twice this weekend and to the ski resort once. I was able to get back into the Glacier itself again today. That was not possible yesterday because there was a pool of water in front of the entrance. It was about 5 degrees last night so the water froze up and I was able to get inside the Glacier. It had some loud pops in there.
I then went to a hill and was taking pictures down onto the glacier when I talked to a fellow who said, 'You are 150 feet from the ice cave.' I checked it out and sure enough, I was close to an ice cave. I took pictures then fell on some ice and whacked the camera. I hope old faithful is still working. The pictures posted are not of the glacier. those will be coming up later. I sure hope the camera will come back to life.

Over a foot of new snow

More Snow! It was snowing like crazy yesterday before school so I shoveled. I shoveled about 4 inches of snow. It snowed all day. It snowed last night again. Time to go shovel.

Sunset in Feb.

Auke Bay Sunset during one of our many sunny days!

Need sunglasses

We are having about 3 days per week of blazing sun! It is amazingly beautiful. I keep thinking I need to get sunglasses. I seem to go to the store on cloudy days and forget about sunglasses. Still need sunglasses.

Fresh King Crab

this boat was selling fresh King Crab. I did not have a big enough pot to cook them so I did not buy any. Auke Bay.

Eaglecrest Ski Area

A new jump just went up.

More Mendenhall

Here are some more Mendenhall. I went to the glacier last night hoping to see some Northern Lights but didn't. Evidently, this year is paricularly poor for Northern Lights. The lights I did see a while back did not have a lot of color.

Juneau, Mendenhall Glacier

The Glacial ice is huge. The picture with the slab frozen on top that will fall with a little melt. That slab is quite large but it looks small when compared to the Glacial ice.

Juneau and ski slope

More typical Juneau pictures and top of the ski lift.

more glacier

here are more shops of Mendenhall Glacier. These are from inside the glacier.
I have a busy week or two and might miss a blog day on occasion. I must say that the State of the Union Speech by President Obama was great!!!!

Inside a Glacier

These photos are inside the Mendenhall Glacier. It has been cold long enough for it to freeze enough for me to walk back into the Glacier. I tried before but got stopped by water and/or slush. Notice the man in the first photo. He is over 6 feet tall.

old boat, fishing boat

Here are a few more pictures of the old boat and a fishing boat. We had a nice weekend in Juneau. the sun was shining and it was beautiful. I got into Mendenhall glacier twice this weekend and remembered to take my camera once. I went inside the glacial ice and took some pictures. I will get them up later this week.

old boat

I have been watching this old boat all winter. When the tide comes in, it has been flooded and only the cabin is seen slightly above water. When the tide is out, the boat just sits on the dirt. I see there is someone trying to make it floatable again.

Typical morning

The past week, this has been what a typical morning has looked like.

More Mendenhall

We have continued to have sunny days this week and it has remained cold. It has generally been about 25 degrees but the sun causes the ice and snow to melt a bit, which causes slick road conditions. A fellow teacher tried to stop, couldn't and hit an SUV which hit a school bus. That was the talk of the school by kids today. I am just glad it was not me. You can see ice bergs in the lake too.

Hills around Mendenhall

These are the hills next to Mendenhall Glacier. There are rocks beneath the snow and ice. I hiked up some of the hills to get pictures of the top of the Glacier.

Mountains

here are some mountain photos

200 year old ice

Here are more pictures from sunny Saturday at Mendenhall Glacier. It was quite spectacular really.

Mendenhall Glacier, more shots

More Saturday, sunshine photos. I have probably a hundred or so. On the last set of photos, you can see some scientists walking on top of the Glacier. I thought that would be kind of great to do, but you need ropes, locating device and knowledgeable people because if you break through the snow, you are surrounded by ice.