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Thursday, November 9, 2023

Weekly Post, "The Chugach: Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range" by Robert Glenn Ketchum

 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, November 9, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #32
CHUGACH: #32:  
After a bitterly cold night in the Chugach mountains, an inversion fog forms as the sun rises.


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Thursday, September 28, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #31
CHUGACH: #31:  
Some particularly ragged summits in the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, September 21, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #30
CHUGACH: #30:  
An overflight in the early spring offers encompassing views of summits and river valleys in the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, September 14, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #29
CHUGACH: #29:  
On a stunning clear morning in the Chugach mountains, a band of low fog floats above the water.


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Thursday, September 7, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #28
CHUGACH: #28:  
A light snow has been falling for several hours, slowly covering the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, September 7, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #27
CHUGACH: #27:  
As the sun rises, the clouds begin to lift off the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, August 31, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #26
CHUGACH: #26:  
A light snow has been falling for several hours, slowly covering the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, August 17, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #25
CHUGACH: #25:  
As the sun rises, the clouds begin to lift off the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, August 10, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #24
CHUGACH: #24:  
Dramatic fall colors in the foothills of the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, August 3, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #23
CHUGACH: #23:  
Incredible late light on the foothills of the Chugach mountains sets the peak fall colors aglow.


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Thursday, July 27, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #22
CHUGACH: #22:  
A full moonrise above the Chugach mountains makes for an amazing evening.


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Thursday, July 20, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #21
CHUGACH: #21:  
Late light in the Chugach mountains sets a summit aglow.


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Thursday, July 13, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #20
CHUGACH: #20:  
A wet snow plasters the side of a mountain the Chugach Range.


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Thursday, July 6, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #19
CHUGACH: #19:  
As the sun sets some nasty weather rolls in over the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, June 29, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #18
CHUGACH: #18:  
A very cold morning in the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, June 22, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #17
CHUGACH: #17:  
In the upper reaches of the Chugach mountains, an icefield takes a plunge and generates another glacier.


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Thursday, June 15, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #16
CHUGACH: #16:  
The tallest summits in the Chugach mountains bear so much snow they like they are covered with ice cream.


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Thursday, June 8, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #15
CHUGACH: #15:  
Through a morning haze, Chugach summits and a blue icefall emerge.


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Thursday, June 1, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #14
CHUGACH: #14:  
As the morning haze burns off, the summits of the Chugach mountains begin to reveal themselves.


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Thursday, May 25, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #13
CHUGACH: #13:  
Driving through the Chugach mountains on a snowy day, some of the summits loom large above the highway.


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Thursday, May 18, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #12
CHUGACH: #12:  
An amazing early morning sunrise in Turnagain Arm, part of the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, May 11, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #11
CHUGACH: #11:  
Driving through the Chugach mountains on the way to Seward, the lakes I pass by are all frozen over.


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Thursday, May 4, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #10
CHUGACH: #10:  
Early morning sun lights up Turnagain Arm and the Chugach mountains.


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Thursday, April 27, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #9
CHUGACH: #9:  
Near and far in the winter mountains of the Chugach.


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Thursday, April 20, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #8
CHUGACH: #8:  
It takes some seriously cold weather in the Chugach mountains to freeze over the saltwater of Turnagain Arm.


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Thursday, April 13, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #7
CHUGACH: #7:  
Here is another good example of how the lower slopes of the Chugach mountains can have accumulation of snow, but above 4,000ft. there are several hundred inches, and on some summits over 1,000 inches may build up.


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Thursday, April 6, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #6
CHUGACH: #6:  
In the vastness of the 100-square mile Chugach range, there are hundreds of summits 10,000ft or higher, and in the winter these mountains accumulate an incredible amount of snow, most of it never trafficked by people.


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Thursday, March 30, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #5
CHUGACH: #5:  
On the summit of Alyeska ski resort, if you look up from the top of the resort mountain you see something entirely different from the ocean. You see an astounding accumulation of snowfall that exceeds 300+” at the top of the resort and grows to 600+ inches in the higher summits of the Chugach range. SKI magazine sent me three hotshot skiers to photograph for my feature, and when we all stood together at the summit, they agreed that the backcountry offered significant skiing because of all the snow, but the consensus was (at the time) the avalanche danger made the terrain unskiable.


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Thursday, March 23, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #4
CHUGACH: #4:  
Alyeska is an unusual ski resort in that the lower slopes of the mountain reach sea level where it is warmer than the summit. As a consequence, those slopes may have marginal snow accumulation, and yet, only 3,000ft. up the lift there is 300+” of snow. As you ski the primary runs of Alyeska, you can look down and see the ocean water of Turnagain Arm.


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Thursday, March 16, 2023

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.


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Thursday, March 9, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #2
CHUGACH: #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.


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Thursday, March 2, 2023

THE CHUGACH:  Alaska’s Most Expansive Mountain Range #1
CHUGACH: #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.


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