Glacier Ash

Mike and I flew up the glacier that feeds the McArthur river this week and found a thick layer of ash left over from the Redoubt eruption. This ash will no doubt affect the glacier for years to come by absorbing heat speeding up deterioration of the glacier. Mike made an interesting comment while we were flying up through the pass about how it's easy to forget how many glaciers we really do have up here, and he's right. As we flew farther inland, all that stretched out in front of us was stress cracked ice and glacier cut peaks. Pretty impressive.
Josh