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2003 Gallery of Hubbard Glacier Photos

Click on each photo for a larger version. File size of larger photo is given in parentheses. All are taken from over Disenchantment Bay looking toward Russell Fiord.

 

2003

January 9

The gap between glacier face and opposing headland appears to be greater than 1000 feet (305 meters). (NPS photo)(441 KB)

 Snow covers Hubbard Glacier, background lowlands and mountain range, and Gilbert Point. Water flows freely between glacier face and its opposing land point.
A more oblique view of the massive Hubbard Glacier and an apparently narrowing gap to Gilbert Point. The St. Elias Mountains shine whitely beyond Russell Fiord in the background.

January 31

A more oblique view taken 3 weeks later shows a gap that appears to have narrowed to about 1000 feet. (NPS photo)(71 KB)

March 17

A closer view shows the advance of a finger of glacier on the Russell Fiord side of the face as it extends past an outcrop that survived last year's blowout. The gap is now estimated at about 700 feet (215 m). (NPS photo)(63 KB)

 The two-pronged face of the glacier shines in the light as Gilbert Point is deeply shadowed across a narrowing gap of turbidwater. Flow ice extends from the glacier into Disenchantment Bay.
The water of Russell Fiord, in the background, and its channel into Disenchantment Bay reflects a gray sky. The glacier face is advancing around a pillar-type outcropping on the glacier side of the channel.

April 10

A closer view shows a further advance of both sections of the glacier, leaving a gap estimated at about 600 feet (185 m). (NPS photo)(47 KB)

April 24

A view from Russell Fiord into Disenchantment Bay shows a restricted passage between the two waterways. (NPS photo)(119 KB)

 The ice face of Hubbard Glacier leaves a narrow gap between itself and Gilbert Point for water to flow into and out of Russell Fiord.

An oblique shot looking from Resurrection Bay into Russell Fiord shows the face of the Hubbard Glacier curving around Gilbert Point. Snow-topped peaks rise in the background and a trail of slushy ice curves from the fiord around the point into the bay.

May 2

A plume of ice and slush curves around Gilbert Point into Disenchantment Bay in the foreground. The face of the glacier restricts the mouth of Russell Fiord. (NPS photo)(301 KB)

May 16

Bits of land dot the opening between glacier and cliff in this view looking into Russell Fiord. (NPS photo) (133 KB)

Between the sheer faces of Hubbard Glacier and Gilbert Point, two tiny bits of land sit surrounded by murky water.
Deep blue water flows between the dark rock face of Gilbert Point and the white face of Hubbard Glacier.

May 16

A birds-eye view of the passage into Russell Fiord shows a free flow of water. (NPS photo)(123 KB)
 

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Photos from 1986 and 2002 are on a separate page of Hubbard photos.
Updated August 31, 2003

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