If you looked at the three “The Blues”, you saw what a couple of glaciers looked like on my trips to Alaska in ’05 and ’10. I am going to do something I don’t normally do and feature the work of another photographer on my site. This is with his permission.

A friend of mine, Chip Kalvin, flies helicopters for Temsco Helicopters in Juneau Alaska. He is not just a pilot but one of the best nature interrupters you will run across. I believe this is year 14 for him up there flying the glaciers and showing others from all over the world how magnificent the Juneau Ice Fields are. In that dozen years  Chip has been watching the glaciers shrink away. I’m not yelling “Save the planet” here because there is noting we are going to do to save it. We have been able to screw up parts of it but in the big picture we are a bug on the windshield.

These images document the last few years on Mendenhall Glacier. I would really advise that if you want to see Mendenhall  still calving icebergs into the lake you don’t wait too long to get up there.