This is one of the coolest things you can drive/walk right up to and touch.
Imagine huge valleys, filled to the brim with snow and ice, 300 SQUARE MILES of snow and ice filling multiple valleys. It's the Harding Icefield (and it's the largest in North America if I recall correctly. )
The snow and the ice spills out of many bordering valleys, and this one is the only one you can drive up to. Exit Glacier just outside of Seward, Alaska. The picture was taken from a turn-off about dead center here looking to the lower left:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=seward+ak&ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=60.188988,-149.627609&spn=0.06025,0.228825&t=k&om=1
It's descending 1/2 a vertical mile in this shot.
Imagine huge valleys, filled to the brim with snow and ice, 300 SQUARE MILES of snow and ice filling multiple valleys. It's the Harding Icefield (and it's the largest in North America if I recall correctly. )
The snow and the ice spills out of many bordering valleys, and this one is the only one you can drive up to. Exit Glacier just outside of Seward, Alaska. The picture was taken from a turn-off about dead center here looking to the lower left:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=seward+ak&ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=60.188988,-149.627609&spn=0.06025,0.228825&t=k&om=1
It's descending 1/2 a vertical mile in this shot.
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