The National Park Service funded us to do a radar survey on the Kennicott and Root Glaciers by McCarthy. Most of that survey happened later, using a helicopter radar. But we also wanted to do some ground based surveys to compare the airborne data to.
So Brandon Tober, Mike Loso and I headed up the Root Glacier to drag the radar across the glacier. I hadn't been in McCarthy in winter in many years and it was just absolutely gorgeous to experience the place at a time when it is not so hectic.
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| View back on the Kennicott Glacier, on the way to the Root Glacier |
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| Towing radar antennas with Doug the Dog |
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And here are some results that Brandon picked from the radargrams, showing that the glacier is over 400 m thick in this area.
