Wonderful! In Bucket-List Mode, President Obama Hikes Alone Up an Alaskan Glacier (BOG)

[DeepModem Mom]

KENAI FJORDS NATIONAL PARK, Alaska — President Obama hiked alone up a gravel path toward Exit Glacier, gazing at a mass of flowing ice as it melted into the plain below.

“How’s this?” he marveled as he surveyed the terrain on a cloudless day. “Beats being in the office.”

Mr. Obama is in legacy-building mode here in Alaska, where he has come to talk about the rapidly unfolding effects of climate change and the urgent need to address it. He saw the consequences of global warming during his trek to the glacier, which has receded more than a mile over the past 200 years because of rising temperatures.

“This is as good a signpost of what we’re dealing with when it comes to climate change as just about anything,” Mr. Obama said.

But the president is also in bucket-list mode, increasingly determined to use his remaining 15 months in office to do and see spectacular things. These days, when Mr. Obama’s policy agenda overlaps with an irresistible sightseeing opportunity, he grabs it....

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/us/obama-relishes-hiking-at-an-alaskan-glacier-with-eye-to-his-legacy.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur via New York Times

[roguevalley]

1. he isn't that far from me. I have been there

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. Why! There's video in that thar link!

Wish he'd added how much the glacier reflects the suns rays and the exposed earth absorbs them.

Love the lovefest in the Cafe!

[roguevalley]

5. people get close to it to have someone take their picture and it calves on them

several tourists have died there that way. It is also noteworthy that the glacier could be accessed by the road a few ago and now you have to drive forever back in country to find it.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I just couldn't resist.

Poldine Carlo, the founding member of the Fairbanks Native Association, wipes away a tear after meeting Obama at the Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage on Monday

Obama hopes to put the state's liquefying glaciers and sinking villages on display as he hikes a glacier, converges with fishermen and even appears on survivalist Bear Grylls' reality show

People gather outside the Denaíina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage before Obama is scheduled to speak at the Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience Conference

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3217760/Obama-begins-three-day-tour-Alaska-climate-change-crusade.html#ixzz3kbDw3c55
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Lord, help him, our president loves him some desserts. For that matter, help me too, because I'm in the same boat.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Thank you!!! Anytime!

I'm not so good at posting photos and videos.

[DFW]

6. "Beats being in the office" TELL me about it!

Here's a pic I took of an Alaskan glacier from a boat last Saturday:
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They are an awesome sight to behold. This one, here where it meets the sea, is about 250 feet above the water line, with maybe another 150 feet more under it.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Amazing! Thanks so much for posting!!!

[DFW]

9. Hard to describe unless you've seen them up close

I only say this because now I HAVE seen them up close.

[coprolite]

7. well, I doubt he was alone....

he was followed by a gaggle of photographers, reporters, SS, aides all bumbling around behind him, not to mention helicopters and osprey tilt rotor aircraft over head.

Alone is hard to find these days.

[caraher]

10. It is hard to find

Ask this guy:

Brother Joseph Byron was recently relaxing atop the Portsmouth Abbey School's wind turbine -- as he often does -- when a drone zoomed in.

Video taken by the drone, owned by a Californian on vacation in Rhode Island, shows Byron sprawled across the turbine's flat surface, with views of Narragansett Bay in the background. The footage was posted online this week.

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He says seeing the drone was a little annoying since he climbs the turbine when he wants to be alone.

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