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TBT When a howler monkey is surprised to see you!
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Shot from the Sheldon Mountain House Sunrise on the Rooster Comb and Denali. It is interesting how Denali always has it's own weather system. During the time we where up on the ruth glacier there was an aurora show but we couldn't see it through the sto
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TBT Hatcher Pass St Patrick's Day 3/17/2013 still the most spectacular night. Sadly my tripod broke so I had to make due.
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Climbers on Ruth glacier.
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First light hitting Denali and the south buttress from Sheldon Mountain house A small piece of the Ruth glacier below.
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Hope is a tattered flag and a dream of time. - Carl Sandburg
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TBT april 2013 immature Bald Eagle in Halibut Cove unimpressed with the snow.
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Perched on a rock in a river of ice. The building at the top of the ridge is the shed. The Sheldon Mountain cabin is on the point of rock to the right.
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“Because it's there.” ― George Mallory "It" being the warm cabin with the booze in it.
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de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter and Cessna 185 on skis at the Sheldon Amphitheater runway. A view from the trail.
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Not sure how much of the path up has stairs as they were very covered in snow. Some spots you could see the top of some 2x4 indicating that there are probably stairs a few feet down. This is the next day after the storm let up a bit and we made sure to
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1979 Cessna A185F in the Sheldon Amphitheater. Only the best pilots and well maintained aircraft survive up here.
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Putting an otter on skis down on a glacier at 6000 feet (2000 meters) in a break in the storm. These pilots have to be the best. Might be hard to make out but there are three orange dots in the right window those are sleds placed to mark the center of t
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On our trip out the Pilot told us that it looks like we may not be able to land and we would have to try again another time. Then he decided to fly around for a while and we got lucky. Here is the tail of the Otter that flew us in with another one in th
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Moose's Tooth and the Root Canal Glacier.
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Heading up to Denali!
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"Raven was not thought of as a god. He was thought of as the transformer, the trickster. He was the being that changed things—sometimes quite by accident, sometimes on purpose." —Christian White, Haida artist
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TBT 1996 Botswana. My mom, sister and I on Safari. Sitting in our open top land Rover 101. All very tan with dirt from the desert. I was surprised at how my tan washed off when I took a shower.
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“We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...” ― John Lennon
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Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth
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“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir
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My friend Mike up at the face composing a shot up close and personal with the toe of the glacier.
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tbt from almost a year ago. I'm quite sure that I am the first person to ever photograph the Delicate Arch in #Moab
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One section of the glacier has advanced a little and is now pressing up against the gorge cliff at the base of Palmer mountain but with a little hiking the other side can be accessed.
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Allen Colter on a Framed Alaskan Carbon Fat Bike at the Knik Glacier.
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This pressure ridge runs along much of the front of the Glacier. Chad Carpenter on a fatbike in the distance. Pressure ridges in general are dangerous and to be avoided. They are a weak point in the ice. While stopped near it I could hear the ice crac
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Salsa Bucksaw at the Knik glacier
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A Cessna 172 checking out the knik Glacier. Small bush planes are a way of life in Alaska. Most of the state has no roads and airplanes are the only way.
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Mike at the toe of the Knik glacier. It is massive!
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Helicopter flying out at the glacier checking out some blue ice.
