All three aerial photos in this post were taken within a “window” of little more than one minute.
Their “star” is the same glacier, & fewer than twenty minutes had passed since “our” floatplane had taken off from the fiord immediately in front of downtown Juneau.
If you look closely at this post’s images you will see unmistakable evidence that not long ago – well within a middle-aged, currently-living human’s memory span – this glacier was considerably longer and thicker.
i am sure that if I were to take the very same flight in May 2026, the pictured glacier would have become obviously-shorter and obviously-thinner than it had been, a mere eleven years earlier.
I think that you are looking at West Twin Glacier; such a complicated landscape yields hordes of wrongly-captioned photos, so it is impossible for me to be sure.
I have seen at least three obviously-unlike glaciers captioned as the same glacier, and have seen photos of obviously-the-same-glacier which were identified as three different ones.
A couple of minutes after I took this post’s pictures we “landed” on the Taku River – this region’s major watercourse – and then walked across to Taku Lodge…of which, more in next post.
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