Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
TENT MOUNTAIN - None of our charts identify this mountain.
It has a sharp ridge and sloping sides as a pup tent.
So we call it call it "The Tent". Layers of braided snow appear to levitate
off the surface of ash - a fleeting illusion I was lucky to capture.
The snow was almost gone the day after this photograph was taken.
Global warming ? Wind ? Or just plain old magma doing its thing.
ADAK - The pyramidal profile of Mt. Adak dominates the flats of the North Beach.
The US military built another airport on the edge of this plain close to the beach,where young pilots battled inexperience and the infamous Aleutian weather.
Airplane wrecks can still be found on the steep slopes of Adak.
Snow does not last long on the flat at this time of the year.
Wind and rain sweeps it off almost as quickly as it accumulates,
but not so on the slopes rising to the caldera situated behind in this view.
Black is volcanic ash. Brown is tundra.
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