This was a quick three-day trip to Black Rapids to get all instruments ready for the summer. Just as last year, it was quite windy on the glacier and the slopes were so wind-loaded that I didn't dare going there to put up the cameras that we use to watch lake drainages.
The snow pack was quite unusual: Near the glacier terminus, there was no snow. It had all melted in an extreme warm event this winter. But the upper glacier had a record snow pack. This came right after the most ice loss there in 40 years of measurements.
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| Camp in the Lokket tributary |
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| Nice view of Hayes from the Richardson Highway |
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| The night we cam back there was a lunar eclipse. Here it is just starting (over the Tanana River) |
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| Almost at full eclipse |
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