Here's an expanded post on my hike out to the Harding Icefield in late-August.

[leepetersen@alaskan.social]

Here's an expanded post on my hike out to the Harding Icefield in late-August. We also walked out to the popular Exit Glacier overlook, where I got a good comparison of images from 2016.

Late Summer, Part 2b: Glaciers and Ice — Harding Icefield and Exit Glaciers - Lee Petersen

A late-summer weekend on the Kenai Peninsula, wildflowers on the Harding Icefield Trail, fog rolling across Exit Glacier, and a decade of glacial recession made visible in a single photograph.

Lee Petersen (www.lwpetersen.com)

#alaska #hiking #glacier #climatechange

[leepetersen@alaskan.social]

What a difference 9 years makes...

[jdoneill@mapstodon.space]

@leepetersen First hiked up there in 1996 when you could see the glacier from the road in, heartbreaking at all the loss over time

[mayo@social.oyam.ca]

@leepetersen Sigh There was also a mini doc about this glacier: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzRsg-loegA&pp=0gcJCY4Bo7VqN5tD (trailer, I can’t find the longer version anywhere)

[syulang@climatejustice.social]

@leepetersen Yikes

[lkdc@dmv.community]

@leepetersen Thank you for the excellent alt text.