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This is one of the pools of water that form on top of a glacier.  I took this picture from an airplane while flying around beside Mt. McKinley.  These photos are of Ruth Glacier in an area called the Amphitheater.  It's a huge bowl where a number of smaller glaciers flow into the larger Ruth Glacier.  I was in the process of photographing another airplane and I'll tell you more about that on the August photo.

This is the view of just one of the several glaciers that flow into the Amphitheater.  Most of what looks like a pile of dirt at the bottom of this photo is also glacier.  Sometimes they push up so much dirt and gravel that you can't even see any ice.

The top of the glacier can also look like this.  They have many different looks depending on how far up or down the mountain you are.

Usually any water on top of the ice takes on this beautiful blue color of the ice beneath it.  By the way, if you want to see any of these pictures larger you can just click on them.