Glacial outwash plain, Matanuska River

Lateral moraine deposits exposed along river

Terminus of Matanuska Glacier from observation area

Forest growing on top of glacier, viewied from Glacier View Elementary School

Exposing glacial ice crystals - clear as glass due to no trapped air

Class crossing glacier (next photos taken with phone so quality not as good)

Classmates making way across ice in background

Matanuska Glacier surface - glacial ice absorbs all wavelengths except blue, so blue is refracted

approach to ice cave carved by water going through the glacier

near exit of ice cave

next to lake on top of glacier

next to small crevasse

my glacier buddy, Greg from UT-San Antonio

a moulin, where water pours down into crevasse

standing by a glacial erratic, a big rock carried along by the ice