They started as one of many snow flakes sometimes hundreds of miles away and thousands of years ago. They have been compressed so tightly from the weight that the air is forced out of the ice. They scoured away at granite mountains. In the end they are small fragile and beautiful ice sculptures floating in the sea or a lake. Others just crumble and melt away on a beach or even on a rock shelf in a mountain range. Most are shrinking and dying, yet a few are still growing.

I don’t think you will ever really “get the feel” of a glacier until you walk on one and then touch a piece of that ice that is melting away. It makes no difference if it is Alaska or somewhere else in the world, if you get the chance to go see a glacier, take it. This is my last in “The Blues” series. It all ends as an iceberg melting away to nothing.

More Glacial Blues but from the face this time. These are true blue, through and through. The Blues Volume 1 was more about detail and the top of the glacier. Here you will see the size of the glaciers and some of that grinding force that forms the Alaska landscape. This is a mix of tidewater, landlocked, lake and hanging glaciers.

I hope you enjoy. Watch for the final Volume 3, What’s Left Of The Blues.

They have got Delta Blues, Chicago Blues and Saint Louis Blues. Blues can make you happy or blue. Blue is what it is. In Alaska, the blues is a little different. In Alaska, the blues is glaciers. The blues helped carve out Alaska and are still doing it today. To get to the blues in Alaska you can go by air or boat. There are some blues you can even drive to. If you are thinking about flying to the blues, look into Temsco Helicopters. Without them and Chip over there I would not have gotten the images in this collection. And now Ladies and Gents, The Blues!

Watch for The Blues Volume 2 Staring “The Faces and The Big Picture”