Glacier Bay Explorer

Glaciers

Artist: Denny Capps
Artist: Denny Capps
We visited this glacier dammed lake soon after a partial draining when the lake edges were thick with fresh mud. The Brady Glacier has dammed this lake for almost 200 years and periodically releases catastrophic outburst floods to the terminus of the glacier. When the lake is drained it forms two small lakes separated by a moraine. This photo was taken facing the Brady Glacier ice dam from the moraine that divides the two lakes at low water. The next photo faces the other direction.

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