As soon as you cross the Continental Divide, the scenery changes drastically, from dense, hilly forests to open, spacious plains. Only a few small towns are found along the way from the west side of the park to the east, most of them boarded up for the winter months. But I did appreciate the various [...]

Instead of reading emails and doing office work, I decided to take off for Montana for a week to do some real Wending, starting with a trip to Glacier National Park. Full of visitors in the summertime, in late fall most of the attractions and campgrounds are already closed for winter, meaning there aren’t too [...]

Looking to preserve that perfect snowman for the entire year? Or perhaps you’d like to save an artillery of snowballs to sabatage an enemy in June (a-la’ Calvin and Hobbes vs. Susie Durkins)? Why not follow the lead of several ski resorts in Colorado, including Aspen, which are experimenting with a protective blanket that preserves [...]

When it came time to study the frozen innards of Greenland’s fastest-moving glacier, NASA scientists didn’t go to the drawing board. They went to the bathtub.
In order to better understand why glaciers speed up as they move out to sea a U.S. rocket scientist unleashed 90 rubber ducks into the Jakobshavn Glacier, hoping they will [...]

The highest peak in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro’s summit lies at 19,300 feet which is exactly where Cameron Martindell took this photo of the surrounding glaciers. His team’s six day climb up the popular Machame route is well documented in a video on Martindell’s website. Check it out here.
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On Sunday the BBC published a rather scary article regarding new research in West Antarctica where three important glaciers are putting more and more ice into the sea, causing great concern amongst environmental scientists. One of the glaciers in question, the Pine Island Glacier, is 30 kilometers wide and and moving at 3.5 kilometers per [...]