I have landed here several times this summer. It always impresses me how quickly the surface of the ice changes, and in the last several weeks the texture of the ice has gotten significantly rougher. Most of this roughness is caused by the heat of the sun melting the dirtier ice faster than the white ice. The dirty ice then becomes the bottom of a small ditch while the white ice is the bump. The 35″ Bush Wheels definitely help smooth out terrain like this.
The big flat at the base of these mountains is the Matanuska Valley. It’s where I live during the…
We got two more lambs collared today. Good times had by all. Sent from my iPhone
Coming back into Palmer yesterday afternoon, this was the deck of clouds that greeted us. There was a hole…
The Bushwheels need to do something while they wait for the wheel-skis to get done with winter. Ali uses…
The climber that I was picking up took this shot. It’s on the Matanuska Glacier at approximately 5000′. This…
I went in to pick up some guys off the glacier this afternoon. They called me on the sat-phone…
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