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Alaska: Glenn Highway & Tok Cut-Off

14 images Created 28 Aug 2019

Glenn Highway & Tok Cut-Off: Palmer Musk Ox Farm; Knik & Matanuska Glaciers; Mount Sanford; Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.

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  • Matanuska Glacier (in 2019), source of the Matanuska River in Alaska, is the largest glacier accessible by car in the United States: 27 miles (43 km) long by 4 miles (6.4 km) wide. It flows near the Glenn Highway in the Chugach Mountains about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Anchorage. Matanuska Glacier flows about 1 foot (30 cm) per day. The Matanuska Glacier has lost 84 million tons of ice 2002-2019 (www.ksl.com/article/27440688). Human-caused climate change has quickly accelerated the unprecedented warming of Alaska in the past few decades.
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  • Matanuska Glacier (in 2006), source of the Matanuska River in Alaska, is the largest glacier accessible by car in the United States: 27 miles (43 km) long by 4 miles (6.4 km) wide. It flows near the Glenn Highway in the Chugach Mountains about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Anchorage. Matanuska Glacier flows about 1 foot (30 cm) per day. Due to ablation of the lower glacier, as of 2007, the location of the glacier terminus has changed little over the previous three decades. Panorama stitched from 2 overlapping photos.
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  • Mount Sanford (16,237 ft), the sixth highest mountain in the United States, a strato-volcano (or composite cone), rises prominently in the Wrangell Mountains, seen from the Glenn Highway, Alaska. The Wrangell Lavas built the Wrangell Mountains over the past 10 million years.
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  • Wrangell Mountains, seen from Nabesna Road, in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, southeast Alaska, USA. Nabesna Road offers spectacular scenery in a seldom-seen, wild corner of Alaska, the headwaters of the Copper River. Here at Mile Post 16.6, Kettle Lake picnic site offers a great view of the Wrangell Mountains. A humorous sign here says "TOILET 1 MILE". The Wrangell Lavas built the Wrangell Mountains over the past 10 million years. Mount Wrangell (14,163 ft) is the largest andesite shield volcano in North America. The cinder cone of Mount Zanetti (13,009 ft) rose prominently 1000 feet above its northwest flank during the past 25,000 years. Wrangell reportedly erupted in 1784 and 1884–85. Occasional steam plumes rise from the park's only active volcano, and ash sometimes coats the summit snow. Flowing northward from it is the Copper Glacier, source of Copper River which flows northward, then westward along the end of the Wrangell Range, then southward to the Gulf of Alaska near Cordova, cutting through the coastal barrier of the Chugach Mountains, marking most of Park's western boundary. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping photos.
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  • At Nabesna Road Mile Post 16.6, Kettle Lake picnic site offers a great view of the Wrangell Mountains. A humorous sign here says "TOILET 1 MILE". in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, southeast Alaska, USA. Nabesna Road offers spectacular scenery in a seldom-seen, wild corner of Alaska, the headwaters of the Copper River. The Wrangell Lavas built the Wrangell Mountains over the past 10 million years. Mount Wrangell (14,163 ft) is the largest andesite shield volcano in North America. The cinder cone of Mount Zanetti (13,009 ft) rose prominently 1000 feet above its northwest flank during the past 25,000 years. Wrangell reportedly erupted in 1784 and 1884–85. Occasional steam plumes rise from the park's only active volcano, and ash sometimes coats the summit snow. Flowing northward from it is the Copper Glacier, source of Copper River which flows northward, then westward along the end of the Wrangell Range, then southward to the Gulf of Alaska near Cordova, cutting through the coastal barrier of the Chugach Mountains, marking most of Park's western boundary.
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  • Reflections in wetland ponds along Tok Cutoff (often considered part of the Glenn Highway), north of Slana River bridge (19 miles north of Slana), in Alaska, USA.
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  • Reflections in wetland ponds along Tok Cutoff (often considered part of the Glenn Highway), north of Slana River bridge (19 miles north of Slana), in Alaska, USA. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping photos.
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  • Iditarod Trail Race Headquarters, Wasilla, Alaska, USA. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is run by 60-100 teams every March between Anchorage and Nome. In the 1960s, mass introduction of snowmobiles devastated sled dog culture and musher (sled driver) freight routes. In response, a short race of 25 miles was organized in 1967 as part of the centennial celebration of the Alaska Purchase, and by 1973 this became the current race to commemorate historic mushing routes. The Iditarod National Historic Trail (historically the Seward-to-Nome Trail) refers to a thousand-plus mile historic and contemporary trail system in Alaska, begun as a composite of trails established by Alaskan native peoples. Gold discovery brought thousands of along these routes beginning in 1910. The Iditarod National Historic Trail system is administered by the Bureau of Land Management part of the US Department of the Interior.
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  • See Knik Glacier and River from a hike on Pioneer Ridge, Alaska, USA. To reach the trailhead from Anchorage, head north on the Glenn Highway, exit onto Old Glenn Hwy, and just before crossing the river, turn onto Knik River Rd for almost 4 miles to trail parking signed on right.
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  • See Knik Glacier and River from a hike on Pioneer Ridge, Alaska, USA. To reach the trailhead from Anchorage, head north on the Glenn Highway, exit onto Old Glenn Hwy, and just before crossing the river, turn onto Knik River Rd for almost 4 miles to trail parking signed on right.
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  • Musk ox in the Alaska Zoo, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. A musk ox (ovibos moschatus), is not an ox, and has no musk glands. Instead, it is a relative of sheep and goats. 3000 musk ox live in Alaska and 100,000 more live worldwide in the far north. Due to their habit of huddling together in a circle (with calves in the center) when threatened, they nearly went extinct after the invention of guns.
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  • Young musk ox. The Musk Ox Farm near Palmer makes a worthwhile visit at Glenn Highway milepost 50, in Alaska, USA. A musk ox (ovibos moschatus), is not an ox, and has no musk glands. Instead, it is a relative of sheep and goats. 3000 musk ox live in Alaska and 100,000 more live worldwide in the far north. Due to their habit of huddling together in a circle (with calves in the center) when threatened, they nearly went extinct after the invention of guns.
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  • The Musk Ox Farm near Palmer makes a worthwhile visit at Glenn Highway milepost 50, in Alaska, USA. A musk ox (ovibos moschatus), is not an ox, and has no musk glands. Instead, it is a relative of sheep and goats. 3000 musk ox live in Alaska and 100,000 more live worldwide in the far north. Due to their habit of huddling together in a circle (with calves in the center) when threatened, they nearly went extinct after the invention of guns.
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  • The Musk Ox Farm near Palmer makes a worthwhile visit at Glenn Highway milepost 50, in Alaska, USA. A musk ox (ovibos moschatus), is not an ox, and has no musk glands. Instead, it is a relative of sheep and goats. 3000 musk ox live in Alaska and 100,000 more live worldwide in the far north. Due to their habit of huddling together in a circle (with calves in the center) when threatened, they nearly went extinct after the invention of guns.
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