Jan 8
Samantha and I flew out to the glacier to take a friend on a hike. It was a beautiful fall day and we spent a couple of hours running around on the ice exploring. Sometimes I turn into a little kid out there running around, and I decided to manifest this in a headstand. It's one of my favorite yoga poses. OK that's a lie ... I tipped-over in about a 1/2 a second but the picture really makes me look talented, but the truth is that Samantha is just really fast with the camera :o)
Photo of the Day -- Glacial Headstands and Skeletons
It is incredible what is found out on the glacier. Some of the stuff is more easily explainable than others. Lots of leaves are frozen into the ice, and I always wonder just how long the vegetation has been frozen there. Organic material preserved by the ice could as easily be 100 years old as 3 months. Leaves and mosquitos are easily explainable as to how they arrived on the ice, but what about twigs and mossy rocks. We get some strong winds but not strong enough to carry 5 pound rocks with moss on them onto the glacier 300 yards. I found a rather large twig last summer hundreds of yards out onto the ice, and this summer I was shown pictures of a skeleton found by one of our mountaineering courses. The skeleton was really awesome, in fact, we never received a satisfactory answer as to the species, but it had some nasty K9's. (I will post the skeleton picture below just so that you can all be curious with me.) I have always hoped that someday I will stumble across something really awesome like .... I don't know ... anything really, really, really, old. Glaciers are some the the neatest creations on God's green and snowy earth. Glaciers are the clearest picture of time I have ever experienced. To see the way a mountain is eroded as the glacier passes by, carrying millions of tons of rock debris 20+ miles at a couple of feet per year. The rock debris draws a perfectly straight black line down a bluish-white glacier over the centuries. If you can't tell I really like glaciers, and I would love to show you around on a flight/hike. I won't make you do a head stand like this unless you have a really good chiropractor. (Below is the skeleton picture)
OK so this is the freaky skeleton picture. I was not with the mountaineers when they found it, so this is the best pic I could get, I just took a shot of their camera. Any ideas what it is ? If you have any ideas email me at BlueIceAviation@gmail.com, because we still don't know. There have been a few guesses, but that is it. I will try to email this dude and post his pictures rather than a picture of a picture, so watch this space, I will do my best to track them down.
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Comments (3)
Jan 08, 2010
Matthew Keller said...
Very good question, They said like 25 feet long. Ok Ok that was a joke, more like 3-4 feet long, not totally sure.
