into the wild

By Katie on July 16, 2008 | | Comments (2)

i am on an adventure this week with my little bro. we have already spotted 13 glaciers, which reflect blue because it is the shortest wavelength of color. the other colors all fractallate into infinity in the ice crystals of the past and future. i learned that there was a mini ice age in 1813 (temps dropped 3 degrees or so) and a certain exit glacier flowed hundreds of feet closer to seward alaska. glaciers are slow moving rivers of ice- they recede about 1000 ft a year or so in this time of global warming. pioneer species such as aspen and birch grow up where they once were, shedding leaves until a layers of soil forms on the ground and the ecosystem can support more forms of life. i am reading into the wild, there are old blue school buses everywhere in alaska! and lots of beardeds headed everywhere.. there is a gale brewing, the midnite sun colored sky vibrates greys and the myth of caribou. i saw a blak bear from 50 yards away. barry lopez would call the eye contact, the deliberation, the back and forth between two species when they meet in the wild, the conversation of death. our conversation ended in the the bear fleeing. i saw her later on the mountainside with her two cubs. society.