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Daily Archives: September 28th, 2014

Day 262

Sunday, September 28, 2014

One fairly large chunk is hitting the water. It sets off another fall. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 261

Sunday, September 28, 2014

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

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Day 260

Sunday, September 28, 2014

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! {!-{>

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Day 259

Sunday, September 28, 2014

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 […]

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Day 258

Sunday, September 28, 2014

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

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Day 257

Sunday, September 28, 2014

This was one of the more impressive ice falls…it is about 250 feet high… ~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 256

Sunday, September 28, 2014

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

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