Little Su

 

Little Su is what locals call the Little Susitna River ,  I just call it beautiful.   My niece took me for a ride up Hatcher Pass to see the scenery.  I didn't realize how awsome the river would look.  Although the temperature was plenty cold, the river hadn't fully frozen yet.  Instead, parts would freeze creating mini ice dams over which water would escape, flood nearby areas and freeze.

 

While there are some rocks here, much of the difference in the height of the water is due to the ice dam effect.

 

Here's a side view.  I thought this was really cool.

However, the thing that took my breath away was the huge range of intense colors of the water.  My pictures are pale comparisons to the real experience.

You can sort of see through these trees the shading of the water.   Chartreuse, emerald, aquamarine, and just about every color in between were playing together.

Can you imagine how beautiful this would have looked when the trees in the background were decked out in gold earlier in the season?

As we drove further, I noticed these little crystaline formations dotting the top of the ice.  (You may have noticed in an earlier picture which was out of order.)  I'd never seen anything like them before.

Aren't they adorable!  Made me want to get lots closer and get some better shots.  Not enough to risk life and limb trekking through the snow on the steep bank and risk falling through the ice (won't be a problem in a month or so.) but still, these little things were amazing!

Like white waterlilies floating on the newly formed ice.

Oh yeah, the mountains were pretty neat looking too. 

But just look at that beautiful water!

You can tell from the density of the trees here that this is much lower down.  The colors here were especially intensely chartreuse and emerald but the sun wanted to make reflections and my filter to combat that was back in the car in my camera bag where clearly it did absolutely NO good at all.  In any case, it's a pretty picture to end our little tour of "Little Su."

 

If you're ever in the Anchorage area, you must contact Alison, she gives great tours!

 

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