Portage Valley in the winter

[Blue_In_AK]

These pictures were taken from the same spot looking left and then looking right.





Portage Glacier is just right of center in the picture below. When I first moved up here in 1975, the glacier came down into the middle of the lake. Global warming at work.

[roguevalley]

1. gorgeous. now you really have to work for it to see the glacier.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I know. Isn't that something?

You've been here a long time, too, haven't you? I hadn't been back there for a while when my husband moved up here in 2003, so I was kind of excited to take him back and show him his first real glacier. I was so shocked to see where it had gone. I don't think he really believes me that it used to be out in the middle of the lake there.

[Baclava]

3. I have the same view as your bottom pic

June, I think it was...

[Blue_In_AK]

4. That's pretty...

Did you take that from the visitor's center? Mine was from the little bridge right before you hit the tunnel to Whittier.

[Baclava]

5. Visitor's center

I used to take my Zodiac up Twenty Mile River all the time in the fall - looking for Silvers...found some good sloughs where they holed up in.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. That's absolutely gorgeous.

You are so lucky to have had the boat. We don't, so the only time we get out on a river is when we do our annual Kasilof float trip with the guide in July. Maybe we'll have to get one of these because I would LOVE to get off the highway -- and not have to rely on my old legs to propel me. LOL.

[Baclava]

7. It all looks pretty when the suns out...

But when the icy fog comes off the mountains and lands in your boat...you still shiver...

[Rocinante]

8. Beautiful

Thanks for posting these. Bummer about what global warming is doing though.