Frozen Stiff
“Derek said after she’d explained it.
“What do you mean Hubbard surged?”
Cody thought of another word for surge. “It advanced.” She remembered the outfitters talking about Hubbard Glacier one night after she’d crawled into her tent. They had used simple terms: advance and retreat. To advance meant to move forward. To retreat meant to move back.
Their conversation came back to her: 1986 was the last time Hubbard Glacier had surged. More than seventy miles long, the river of slowly mov...ing ice had slid across the mouth of Russell Fjord, sealing off Disenchantment Bay and forming the world’s largest glacier-formed lake.
“Are you sure?” Derek asked.
“All the streams and rivers are draining into the fjord.” She shouted over the wind, which was picking up. “All the water that usually flows out to sea on the tide doesn’t have anywhere to go.”
“No way out.”MoreLess
“What do you mean Hubbard surged?”
Cody thought of another word for surge. “It advanced.” She remembered the outfitters talking about Hubbard Glacier one night after she’d crawled into her tent. They had used simple terms: advance and retreat. To advance meant to move forward. To retreat meant to move back.
Their conversation came back to her: 1986 was the last time Hubbard Glacier had surged. More than seventy miles long, the river of slowly mov...ing ice had slid across the mouth of Russell Fjord, sealing off Disenchantment Bay and forming the world’s largest glacier-formed lake.
“Are you sure?” Derek asked.
“All the streams and rivers are draining into the fjord.” She shouted over the wind, which was picking up. “All the water that usually flows out to sea on the tide doesn’t have anywhere to go.”
“No way out.”MoreLess
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