Eklutna Glacier Repeat Photography

On a recent trip to the Serenity Falls Public Use Hut in Chugach State Park, Alaska, I rephotographed several images of Eklutna Glacier taken in 1915 by U.S. Geological Survey geologist Steven Reid Capps. Below is one of the 1915 USGS photos.

The S.R. Capps image shows the 1915 terminus and unvegetated outwash plain of Eklutna Glacier near the Serenity Falls area of the West Fork Eklutna River. Image credit: S.R. Capps/U.S. Geological Survey.

Below is the image that I took on July 31, 2010 from a location near where Capps made his image in 1915.

My 2010 image shows that the Eklutna Glacier has retreated over a mile up the valley and dense vegetation has colonized the former moraine and outwash plain. A small portion of the glacier is still visible in the distance in front of Peril Peak (elevation 7,040 feet).

Alaska Glacier Change Eklutna Glacier - Images by Ron Karpilo

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