Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Sitka Part 1
Well, back from Sitka. Totally awesome trip and totally primed the pump for another visit this summer hopefully. Since I can't do the picture albums at the moment I figured I'd load up the blog here with a few sets of junk.
Mary Ellen and I stayed with Ralph and Jill Johnson which was awesome. Friday Ralph and I went on the tour of Sitka to see what'd changed. Got the whole talking tour and everything. Here he is explaining how ice works since the weather was so freezing cold (they hit 2 above a few days before). Cracked me up:
Hiking the Indian River trail we came across some needle ice. Not really all that cool but my boss the soil scientist had never seen this kind of ground ice before since it's not found much up in the interior and stuff. So, I grabbed a few pictures for him:
Mary Ellen and I stayed with Ralph and Jill Johnson which was awesome. Friday Ralph and I went on the tour of Sitka to see what'd changed. Got the whole talking tour and everything. Here he is explaining how ice works since the weather was so freezing cold (they hit 2 above a few days before). Cracked me up:
Hiking the Indian River trail we came across some needle ice. Not really all that cool but my boss the soil scientist had never seen this kind of ground ice before since it's not found much up in the interior and stuff. So, I grabbed a few pictures for him:
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I noticed that same spot of ice when I was coming down the trail from the falls. I have never been sure exactly how/why the ice forms like that though a little bit of internet search indicates it has something to do with hydrostatic force from the ground water. In any case, I put a related entry up on my weblog.
Yeah, lots of water wicking related to heat flux from the warm ground to the cold air. Pretty cool. I have fond memories of stomping all over it as a kid. *sigh*
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