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I hear tell it may not be long before only Canada has glaciers on this continent.
From the website of Glacier National Park: http://www.nps.gov/glac/
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Melting Glaciers
The glaciers in Glacier National Park are melting. In 1850, 150 glaciers covered the landscape. Today in 2006, there are only 27 glaciers left inside the park, a 75-80% decrease. If current warming trends continue, it is projected that between 2030 and 2050, there will be no more glaciers in Glacier National Park.
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& some say it will be sooner than that.
Canada will have fewer glaciers too.
1) Have you visited a glacier?
2) Are you adding glaciers to your 'want to visit' list?
3) Or if they were already on your list, are they on your sooner list? & when is that to be?
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I hear tell it may not be long before only Canada has glaciers on this continent.
From the website of Glacier National Park: http://www.nps.gov/glac/
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Melting Glaciers
The glaciers in Glacier National Park are melting. In 1850, 150 glaciers covered the landscape. Today in 2006, there are only 27 glaciers left inside the park, a 75-80% decrease. If current warming trends continue, it is projected that between 2030 and 2050, there will be no more glaciers in Glacier National Park. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
& some say it will be sooner than that.
Canada will have fewer glaciers too.
1) Have you visited a glacier?
2) Are you adding glaciers to your 'want to visit' list?
3) Or if they were already on your list, are they on your sooner list? & when is that to be?
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10-02-2006, 05:19 AM
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planning to revisit the salmon and brenedan glaciers north of hyder alaska next year.
both are in canada but you have to drive into alaska to get there.
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10-02-2006, 05:30 AM
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rockman,
When? Fall? Spring? Winter?
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10-02-2006, 02:10 PM
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 Are you sure that they are not making vodka outa that ice?
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10-03-2006, 04:47 AM
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hello LK.
probably mid september.
depends on a few other events.
hope to travel the cassiar hwy and come back the alaska hwy.
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10-03-2006, 06:59 AM
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> Are you sure that they are not making vodka outa that ice? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Novi, Those icebergs, former glacier parts, have been washed a bit before those vodka producers harvest the ice for business, you know.
Rockman, you're kind of doing the reverse of what I plan to do of a spring, but we're both planning to do the Cassiar at the more mild end of our trips.
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10-03-2006, 07:50 AM
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Do you suppose we could invent a new product? Salt water vodka? or Purely Canadian Arctic Vodka?
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10-03-2006, 07:58 AM
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Novi, I doubt that those bergs were Canuck glaciers.
More than likely they are wanders, voyageurs from Greenland.
Iceberg Vodka has a better ring than Glacier Vodka. How about Athabaskan Rye? Made with pure melted glacial water and the best prairie grain.
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10-05-2006, 05:50 AM
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have been making my own wine for years now.
you guys have got me thinking.
iceberg wine?
goes without saying to avoid the yellow ice.
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10-05-2006, 07:19 AM
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The question is how to harvest a chunk of iceberg and melt out the 'pure water'.
Actually, I've used a kit for 'ice wine.' You don't ferment it out completely, but you add a chemical to stop the fermentation, but you have to keep it cool.
Over here we don't have grapes, but can do quite a lot with honey and sugar. Mead, which is made from just honey is my best product!!!!
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10-05-2006, 09:25 PM
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">goes without saying to avoid the yellow ice. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
...by all means rockman...the yellow ice will do nothing to inhance the flavour...LOL.. 
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10-05-2006, 11:49 PM
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& Brad, what were you doing up at that hour of the day. Back bothering you? Feel yesterday's accomplishments???
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10-06-2006, 01:58 AM
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Yes LK, some what...very observant..  pretty hard to get one by you..
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