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TBski
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Heavy termination dust at 4000ft in the Girdwood valley...
here we go again
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funhog
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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fresh snow on SoSuicide Bring it on!
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telecrasher
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| ... and on Ptarmigan, O'Malley, etc. I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict an early winter, with the formation of several new glaciers in the Chugach. |
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TBski
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If we're predicting glacier formation, I'd like to predict a few steep ones, maybe say a 5000ft vert, 45 degree glacier. Yum.
Nice fall day today,eh? |
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SRJesse48
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
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Location: Anchorage AK
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Anyone been down to turnagain lately? I know mid June there was still so much snow and plenty of access. I haven't been down there since then, wondering how all this rain has changed the conditions? Let me know if anyone has been down there lately. Was hoping to check out Tincan maybe this week. Thanks guys...
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Ira
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| SRJesse48 wrote: | | Anyone been down to turnagain lately? I know mid June there was still so much snow and plenty of access. I haven't been down there since then, wondering how all this rain has changed the conditions? Let me know if anyone has been down there lately. Was hoping to check out Tincan maybe this week. Thanks guys... |
I drove down last night to go fishing after work and even with all the rain, Tincan Proper had a lot of snow and there are several skiable north-facing bowls a bit to the south...
Bring on WINTER. Today is just a false hope for summer and the fishing kinda sucks...
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peterscrackak
Joined: 29 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: Turnagain |
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| I skied Tincan on Thursday. I was able to skin from a couple hundred feet above tree line. My intention was to ski Todd's Run but light was bad and the snow was not corning up due to cold temps, so I skied the bowl and a little more for about 1200' before having to hike out. Found lots of left-overs from last year: goggles, sun glasses, a shovel, and a car battery (the battery was about 1000' from the road?). |
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funhog
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the afternoon thundershower left this on McHugh and a few lightening strikes 
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fbomm
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Location: Anchorage, AK
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: Snowbird Glacier |
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Went in search of some good corn on the Snowbird over the weekend and instead found ourselves in the middle of a full-on snowstorm! We were aiming to stay overnight at the hut, but it was snowing and blowing so hard at the pass and the viz was so poor that we backed off a quarter mile and set up camp. All Sat afternoon it was coming down at about 1" per hour, we wound up with 6" of POW in August!
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funhog
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fbomm way to get after it  Attaboy!
so I saw this piece referenced in todays paper
and then I read this piece and
this piece
I am beginning to think the funhog might get more skiing in this year than last year
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WantToSki
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Location: Palmer, AK
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| funhog wrote: | fbomm way to get after it Attaboy!
so I saw this piece referenced in todays paper
and then I read this piece and
this piece
and I am beginning to thing the funhog might get more skiing in this year than last year |
Yeah, I read that piece earlier today too. Made me smile . Winter and crazy climactic cycles offsetting global warming. I can dig it.
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risk.reduction
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Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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Surging Canadian glacier could lead to flooding in Alaska. CBC News reports that a glacier in northern British Columbia is surging into the Alsek River, which runs through the Yukon, raising concerns of flooding in Alaska.
"It's one of the large glaciers up there, and this is an entirely wholehearted surge," said Garry Clarke, a glaciologist at the University of British Columbia. "The whole glacier is participating; it's advancing over the whole front." The fear is the ice will dam the river, causing sudden flooding toward the Alaska community of Dry Bay.
Global cooling. Phase 1.
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ak_powder_monkey
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Location: Eagle River Alaska
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| risk.reduction wrote: | Surging Canadian glacier could lead to flooding in Alaska. CBC News reports that a glacier in northern British Columbia is surging into the Alsek River, which runs through the Yukon, raising concerns of flooding in Alaska.
"It's one of the large glaciers up there, and this is an entirely wholehearted surge," said Garry Clarke, a glaciologist at the University of British Columbia. "The whole glacier is participating; it's advancing over the whole front." The fear is the ice will dam the river, causing sudden flooding toward the Alaska community of Dry Bay.
Global cooling. Phase 1. |
Actually that glacier is surging because of global warming, more warm = more evaporation = more snow at elevation = more glacier advances if they are fed from high elevation icefields, like the Alsek and the Taku... also that glacier has been damming the alsek all summer...
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risk.reduction
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Actually that glacier is surging because of global warming, more warm = more evaporation = more snow at elevation = more glacier advances if they are fed from high elevation icefields, like the Alsek and the Taku... also that glacier has been damming the alsek all summer... |
Correct assessment.
Then, after another 10,000 years of that trend, voila- an ice age.
Apex of warming, beginning of cooling. Local first, globally later.
That's why it's called "Phase 1".
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ak_powder_monkey
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we can only hope 
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