The Chugach: Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range
by Robert Glenn Ketchum
Alaska’s most expansive mountain range at over 100-miles square. Dozens of summits rise above 10,000ft. and there is snow accumulation of 600 inches or more above 3,000ft.
~Robert Glenn Ketchum
Thursday, March 16, 2023
THE CHUGACH: Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #3
THE CHUGACH: Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #3
CHUGACH: #3:
Early fall comes to the “ghost” forest on the road into Girdwood and the Alyeska ski resort. The Chugach mountains are already covered with snow and there will be much more to come. Interestingly since the lower slopes are near sea level they do not accumulate any significant snow depth, but 3,000ft. up there is a tremendous accumulation, and the upper elevations of the range may have 600 inches of snow or more.
photograph(s) © copyright, ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM, 2023,
@RbtGlennKetchum @RobertGKetchum @LittleBearProd #LittleBearProd
Follow Robert Glenn Ketchum's Photographic Activism Online:
LINKEDIN: linkedin.com/in/RbtGlennKetchum
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/RobertGlennKetchum
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/NoPebbleMine.photos
TWITTER: twitter.com/RbtGlennKetchum
TWITTER: twitter.com/RobertGKetchum
SOCIAL MEDIA by #LittleBearProd: LittleBearProd
Wach Gallery: Wach Gallery
Thursday, March 9, 2023
THE CHUGACH: Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #2
About 3hrs. down Turnagain Arm you come to this, the “ghost” forest, where the road into Girdwood turns off. The 100-square miles of the Chugach Range lies upon a single tectonic plate. In 1964, Alaska suffered a 9,2 earthquake that lasted almost 1-minute. It dropped the main street in Anchorage 30ft. and it lifted the eastern edge of the Chugach plate several feet, tilting down the plate edge at Girwood where the saltwater from Turagain Arm rushed in and killed all of these trees.
photograph(s) © copyright, ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM, 2023,
@RbtGlennKetchum @RobertGKetchum @LittleBearProd #LittleBearProd
Follow Robert Glenn Ketchum's Photographic Activism Online:
LINKEDIN: linkedin.com/in/RbtGlennKetchum
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/RobertGlennKetchum
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/NoPebbleMine.photos
TWITTER: twitter.com/RbtGlennKetchum
TWITTER: twitter.com/RobertGKetchum
SOCIAL MEDIA by #LittleBearProd: LittleBearProd
Wach Gallery: Wach Gallery
_________________________________
Thursday, March 2, 2023
THE CHUGACH: Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #1
In the 4yrs. I had been coming to Alaska, I spent all of my time in southeast exploring the Tongass rainforest. After an Alaskan skier, Tommy Moe, got a gold medal in the Olympics and his home resort was Alyeska, no one in the lower '48 had ever heard of that, so I got a call from Ski magazine to photograph it. It was located south of Anchorage in the small town of Girdwood, So I flew to Anchorage, rented a car, and drove down the highway that paralleled Turnagain Arm (above). The arm is long and narrow and has a huge tidal fluctuation that comes in like a tsunami, and retreats just as quickly often stranding Orca on the mud flats.
photograph(s) © copyright, ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM, 2023,
@RbtGlennKetchum @RobertGKetchum @LittleBearProd #LittleBearProd
Follow Robert Glenn Ketchum's Photographic Activism Online:
LINKEDIN: linkedin.com/in/RbtGlennKetchum
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/RobertGlennKetchum
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/NoPebbleMine.photos
TWITTER: twitter.com/RbtGlennKetchum
TWITTER: twitter.com/RobertGKetchum
SOCIAL MEDIA by #LittleBearProd: LittleBearProd
Wach Gallery: Wach Gallery
