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Charlie Shugart
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Before it slipped off its terminal moraine and began its very fast retreat (In the 1980s).
Sightseeing boats could get within 500 yards of the 400-foot high face of the glacier.
Now? Probably several miles.



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Alaska's Columbia Glacier




Nov 10, 2013 at 12:06 AM
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Awesome sight-well captured!
Leon



Nov 10, 2013 at 12:09 AM
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Brrrr...looks cold. Love the "wall" of ice backdrop. Really sets the scene nicely!


Nov 10, 2013 at 03:47 AM
Charlie Shugart
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Thanks Leon and Scott.
Among the many fascinations of tidewater glaciers is the oft-present blue color of the ice.
Because the ice is so highly compressed, it absorbs all the "long" colors of the spectrum i.e. reds.
But blue- as a short and very energetic color- bounces around in the ice and reflects out for us to see.
In a way, blue glacial ice is every color EXCEPT blue .
Charlie



Nov 10, 2013 at 08:15 PM





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