Cryoconite holes

UAF Summer School 2014

Crossing the Alaska range

Driving to McCarthy

Gulls fishing for salmon

River crossing

The guardrails are a neat addition to the bridge here

Kuskulana Bridge

Outdoor poster session with all participants

Poster Session

Some posters were on the wall

More Posters

More posters on the clothesline

More Posters

Not a bad place to stay for a week

View from camp

There are lots of cool old things around McCarthy

Old Truck

We had meals, and worked on our projects, here

The Wrangell Mountains Center

We used Ed LaChappelle's old cabin for our classroom

Our Classroom

A rug hanging in Ed LaChappelle's cabin. It shows Mt. Blackburn

Blackburn Tapestry

A fieldtrip to the Root Glacier

Fieldtrip!

A clean bit of ice

Root Glacier

Debris covered ice

Root Glacier

Icefall in the dystance

Root Glacier

These form because dark material absorbs energy from the sun, heats up, and melts downwards.

Cryoconite Holes

An island surrounded by ice

Donohoe

Water drains through moulins to the bed

A Moulin

Any guesses what happened here? The crystals suggest some interesting refreezing

Refrozen Hole

A lake drained through this channel earlier in the summer

Subglacial drainage

Looking back out of the channel

Glacial Blue

A stream on top of the Root

Supraglacial Stream

The rocks shade the ice beneath them

Mushroom Rocks

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David Lilien