Picture of the Day – ‘Splitter In Moonlight
Spllitter : Josh McDonald/Feb 18, 2017
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Picture of the Day – Schoolbus
Good-Bye Damalanche 2014 – It’s Finally Gone.
Within the next week, a small patch of snow will melt at the base of Snowslide Gulch. Lasting nearly 2-1/2 years, this is the last dirty white remnant of the debris pile from the largest avalanches cycle ever seen in Valdez. The enormous amount of snow that slid off the mountains in late January of 2014 was a thrill for […]
Read moreGlacier Porn
Bradford Washburn opened his first photo business in Valdez in 1936. It was from the tidal mudflats near town where he took his camera to the sky over mountains for the first time and framed glaciers and mountains, including the Shoup. The rest is history as far as his glacier photography and of course his mountaineering. I get plenty of […]
Read morePicture Of The Day And Valdez Tram History
Nice hike up to the Solomon Lake last night. The trail/road is in good shape. Looks like a great place to a take a pack-raft and paddle south into Chugach National Forest. At the end of the lake, some remains of a copper mining operation might still be found. At one point a tram ran from the present location of the […]
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Sam Shirk(Valdez) – Obsession
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Back In The Chugach – Sabine Arnold (WA)
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