PhotoSpam: Aleutian Sickgnar, with Lava!!

[Lane Meyer]

I wish this was a first hand TR, but I'm so far from Alaska right now I'm in another SEASON!!!!! But the shots are rad so I thought I'd share. Photos and captions are pulled from the website below. Man, do I want to go up there and ski Shishaldin!

During September 2007 one of us (Fulle) had the opportunity to take
extensive aerial photographic coverage of various volcanoes in
Alaska. Exceptionally clear weather immediately after the first
autumn snowstorms had covered the peaks with some frost.

http://stromboli.net/perm/alaska/index-en.html

is a good starting point to find aerial photos of Shishaldin,
Isanotski, Fourpeaked, Douglas, Iliamna and Augustine volcanoes.
Several of the photos have a glaciological interest too.

-Stromboli online team
J. Alean, M. Fulle, R. Carniel

Rainbow at Cold Bay airport; our piper aircraft is ready for takeoff for a flight to Unimak Island.


The perfect cone of Shishaldin rises high above a deck of stratocumuls clouds. Pogromni volcano far right.


Whereas Shishaldin is a superb example of a young, symmetric stratovolcano, the much older Isanotski is irregular and deeply eroded.


Except for the topmost part Shishaldin's uppermost flanks are covered by glaciers. Their fast flow leads to intensive crevassing.


Runoff from the Shishaldin's glaciers feeds into rivers meandering through coastal plains towards the Pacific Ocean (upper right).




Whereas Shishaldin's summit cone is very steep, its lower flanks are much flatter. Isanotski and Roundtop Mountain in the background.


Note the fresh ice covering the andesitic lava flows erupted during the last activity of 1999.


The nearer half of Isanotski's summit crater rim has collapsed. The crater is now occupied by a glacier of considerable size.


Isanotski from the north: Note how the rock pinnacles forming the summit ridge are encrusteed by big frost deposits.


Isanotski (left) and Shishaldin (right) rise over the cloud deck covering the Bering Sea shoreline.

[G]

Very neato.

[lucubrator]

Aweso-cational?

[ak_powder_monkey]

I really like Alaska for a few reasons...

[midget]

sooooo dope. that peak is crazy!

[Sluff]

I've got to get back to AK this year.

[TurnEarner]

...so much beauty, it'll make you cry...

[Roo]

That crevasse field looks ugly. You'd have to really work for that one. Unless you had a heli.

[Trackhead]

I tried for two years to organize a trip there about 6 years ago. Wasn't much info back then.

AMAZING, and thanks for posting.

[AKPogue]

sooooo dope. that peak is crazy!

Which one!!! They all look incredible.

[powdork]

I followed the link instead of looking at the pics here. There's two hours that I'll never get back. Very cool stuff. [beavis]Fires cool, huh huh[/beavis]

[neck beard]

Shit, thanks for these pictures. I didn't even know that amazing mountain existed. Thank you.

[TeleHoar]

Pictures pretty.
Words big.

[skier666]

Those pics are so HOT!

[LT]

Pretty awesome pics, love the one looking into the Volcano. thanks for posting.

[Below Zero]

Sweet pics! Never seen anything like that.

[alto]

Holy shit. I was looking for a ski line down the older, more gnarled and eroded one, when I looked closer at the name: Isanotski.
"I say not ski." Better listen to the volcano gods.

[orange]

Sickgnar indeed.

[SnortZpow]

truly amazing pics

[Name Redacted]

I will shred those mountains in my lifetime!

[WICS]

Awesome stuff

[HotCarl]

Fuckin beautiful,man. Isanotski is like the winter version of Mt. Doom. In the land of Mordor.

[Hicks]

Great shots, Thx for sharing.

Out of curiousity what's the vertical on those volcanos? 6-7000 ft?

[SPREAD EAGLE]

I was born on Adak Island. I would like to return to see and ski it one day.

Nice TR

[homi]

cool