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Category Archives: Alaskan Cruise 2014!

Day 261

Another of the small ice fall. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

Day 260

If you look to the right of the center, and slightly up you will see a big chuck of ice start to fall.  It smashes when it hits the ice below, and you can see why the water is full of little bits of ice. ~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>

Day 259

Those chunks of ice floating below the glacier are some of what we saw fall in previous posts. Before the glacier calves, you hear a loud booming, a few seconds before the ice falls.  I recall this was called “white thunder”.  It is the ice cracking prior to the fall.  You have a couple of […]

Day 258

A close up of one of the animation frames posted below. ~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>

Day 256

A 20 or so photo panorama of 2/3 of the front of Hubbard Glacier. (Click to enlarge; BACK to return!) ~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>

Day 255

A double!   Click to enlarge; BACK to return! ~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>

Day 254

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Day 253

An ice fall, or calving, in motion. Sorry about the jerk after the first frame… ~Curtis in alaska! {!-{>

Day 252

One of the ice fall frames from the animation in the next post…that chunk is probably 175 high… ~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>

Day 251: Big Calving!

Calving at the Russell Fjord end of the Glacier! That chunk of ice behind the splash is about 200 feet high… * ** *** ** * That is a bigger splash that the whales made! ~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>