The Glacier Itself

Okay, so I babbled about the hike in the last post; now a few words about Rob Roy Glacier itself. Very impressive. It actually covers a very wide area, with tons of waterfalls, so it was very different than the other glaciers with which we got up close and personal. The vastness of it couldn't be captured in any one picture, so you'll have to take my word for it.

There was a nice field to relax in and absorb the scenery, and we had great weather, depite the clouds cloaking the glaciers in the pictures you see. (Unfortunately, that's true of many of these pictures--we were drenched in an incredibly strong sunlight, but clouds seem to populate my pictures.)

And at two different points, we heard a very loud rumble, followed by two glacial avalanches! I'm guessing that's kind of rare; one was captured in the bottom-center of the third picture you see here. (As usual, click the picture to bring it up in its own window, and then click again to maximize it.)

Final thought: it's hard to get a sense of scale from these pictures, but the waterfalls were very tall, the glacier and mountain peaks huge, and so forth. So try to imagine it as very, very big.