stableduck Loc: Chugiak, Alaska

yesterday I a friend asked me if I wanted to fly along with him to Strandline Lake to try to find his wedding ring he lost on a previous trip. its a glacier lake but the water has drained out. but when he was there last time the water was a couple hundred feet higher then it was yesterday not somewhere that is normally landed at.
with a metal detector and our cameras we fly out to find a needle in a haystack. we didn't find the ring, but had a great time climbing around and taking pictures.
the images dont capture the size of the ice chunks, some photos Mark is in to give some perspective for size.
you can search the web about the lake, its pretty cool

flying over the glacier to the lake

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Mark and the plane

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Mark in front of the glaicer

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Mark next to an iceberg

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you can see how high the water was before the ice dam broke

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broken chunk

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the glacier as we were flying out

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a pool of water on the glacier

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dooragdragon Loc: Alma , Arkansas

Excellent set of photo's , has to be the most interesting I've ever saw posted.
Thanks for sharing them, some awesome shots to say the very least .
Pete

stableduck Loc: Chugiak, Alaska

thanks Pete! it's still hard for me to imagine that much water flowing out in a few days and leaving the icebergs scattered like that.

dooragdragon Loc: Alma , Arkansas

What one might call a major water leak.
Pete

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

Very cool photos. Love the color in the ice. But I gotta ask: "Did he find his ring?" She must have been mightily upset with him to get him to fly out there and try to find a tiny ring in that huge landscape.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Stunning images! Super that you could have a human as scale for us to wrap our heads around the size :)

stableduck Loc: Chugiak, Alaska

Erich, this is Marks job, it would be like us getting in the car and driving to the lake. He works for an air taxi service / flight seeing service.
He had a group to pick up at a remote lodge and the lake was kind of on the way, so we left early so we left early so we had about 3 hours to look around.
And no he didn't find the ring

stableduck Loc: Chugiak, Alaska

Thanks Linda, trying show the scale of things in Alaska is always a challenge. I have seen thousands of amazing images of Alaska, none captured it like being there.

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very good set Jim.

gwr Loc: South Dartmouth, Ma.

Great set, thanx for posting for all of us to see. Amazing subject matter. Gary

stableduck Loc: Chugiak, Alaska

thanks Jim! :thumbup:

stableduck Loc: Chugiak, Alaska

thank for looking Gary! it was an amazing trip! and to think I almost said I didn't want to go! thinking I would just be looking at another glacier. maybe I have been in Alaska to long!

LaurenT Loc: Northern California

Jim, those are great shots! I guess we couldn't drive to Standline Lake :lol:, here I thought it was a new place for Ed and I to visit before we leave. Really enjoyed your pictures. :thumbup:

stableduck Loc: Chugiak, Alaska

No, its not someplace you can drive to. its about a 45 min. flight in the beaver. Maybe you could do a flight seeing trip before you leave. Mark said they have been talking about doing some photo safaris. I don't know what that would cost! If you do ask for Mark to take you he will get take care of you