The Bear Glacier
 

For months, maybe years, I’ve meant to thank Grant for the continuing series of great photos. Today there’s a new one, of “The Bear Glaciers.”

I’ve been to the Bear Glacier (singular, as far as I know) many times in the last 30+ years. I’ve watched the toe of the glacier downwaste and recede from where it formerly touched the meltwater lake across which it’s viewed from the parking lot.

The photo shows no lake and no outflow stream—just a parking lot, the glacier, and a tiny trickle of meltwater. Is this an angle I never found in my own photos? Or is it photoshopped for effect? I’m open to other explanations, too, whether divinely-inspired or otherwise.

The effect may have been created by taking the photo from near ground level and zooming in. That would put the "lake" out of view.

Here's a picture from the summer of 2021. I have another print photo from the mid 80's where the glacier was about halfway to the road from where it is now.

I visited Hyder and Stewart in June 1995 on my Kawasaki 500. Below are two pics I took of Bear Glacier on June 10th, 1995.