Matanuska Glacier #1
by David Arment
Title
Matanuska Glacier #1
Artist
David Arment
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Photograph - Photograph
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Should the opportunity present itself to go walking on a glacier please treat yourself to this. It is wild! Pam and I walked and walked on this glacier. We literally got lost (temporarily). The ice is so tall that you can't see the horizon and all of the ice tends to look the same.
As usual we got so excited we just started walking. It wasn't until some time later we said to one another, these are the wrong shoes / boots for this. Pam had on tennis shoes. You are walking on dense ice that is melting. It is hard to think of something that might be slicker than this. So you want shoes that have some grip.
Some places on glaciers, and I noticed it at other places with permafrost, are very rubbery. You walk on the surface and get the uneasy feeling that you could fall through the crust and into some water below. It is not like walking on a frozen lake, because on the glacier, in these areas, the surface around is moving because of the displacement of water where you are standing. It is like walking on blubber.
And the ice is brilliant blue under your feet at times. Light is transmitted from one place to another like light through an optic cable. The result is light under your feet that is neon blue, but only at certain places.
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October 21st, 2016
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