Mount Cleveland 2003

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clev01P7311723 (July 31, 2003) I left today for field work at Mt. Cleveland volcano in the central Aleutians Islands of Alaska. This trip was only ten days after I got back from Hawai'i, but was needed for my thesis work. I started out by leaving Fairbanks in the morning. It was a decent day to fly past Mt. Denali (pictured).

clev02P7311733 The mountain was clear most of the time.

clev03P7311739 I was also able to take a few pictures of the mountains in the area.

clev04P7311729 There was a really cool view of two alpine glaciers converging into one and creating a medial moraine down the center.

clev05P7311748 I was doing this field work with three other people: Jonathan Dehn (my advisor), Richard Moore of the USGS, and Mike Brown (a graduate student at Kansas State University). I got into Anchorage and soon met up with Mike. Jon and Rich went down to Dutch Harbor, Alaska the previous day. Mike and I soon found out that we had to wait 5 more hours before our flight to Dutch Harbor left. Once we got the chance to leave we flew past several Alaskan volcanoes. The first volcano we flew past was Mt. St. Augustine.

clev06P7311752 The next shot of Mt. St. Augustine...

clev07P7311754 ...and the next shot.

clev08P7311756 After about another half hour we were going by the Alaskan Peninsula volcanoes of Pavlof and Pavlof's Sister (the smaller one to the left),...

clev09P7311765 ...Isanotski,...

clev10P7311769 ...Round Top (with Isanotski in it),...

clev11P7311771 ...Shishaldin with pyroclastic deposits from Strombolian bursts that have been occuring since the last main eruption in 1999...

clev12P7311774 ...A close-up shot of Shishaldin...

clev13P7311776 ...all three volcanoes Round Top, Isanotski, and Shishaldin (from left to right),...

clev14P7311768 ...and finally Westdahl...

clev15P7311778 ...and one last shot of Westdahl.

clev16P8011793 We managed to arrive into Dutch Harbor in the mid afternoon, but the connecting flight that we were going to take to Nikolski went with only our baggage because of the weight limit. By the time the flight had returned to take us, the weather at Nikolski was getting bad, so we had to stay in Dutch Harbor for the night. (August 1, 2003) We woke this day to find out we had to wait around the airport till the weather got better in Nikolski. We did have some time to check out the area near the airport, but not much else. We also saw some of the remnants of the defensive bunkers from World War II that still claim some of the hills in the area. It turned out that we had to spend another night in Dutch Harbor since the weather never cleared up that day.

clev17P8011801 We tried to go by the Aleutian World War II National Historic Area Visitors Center that day, but it was closed.

clev18P8162473 We did get back to it on the way back so here is a shot of the sign with the flags flying.

clev19P8021831 (August 2, 2003) This was the day we were looking forward to leaving Dutch Harbor for Nikolski. We woke and had breakfast while checking out some of the Bald Eagles that call the island of Unalaska home.

clev20P8021857 We did manage to get out on a flight to Nikolski. As we got close to the western side of Umnak Island where Nikolski is located we got our first view of Vsevidof Volcano.

clev21P8021865 After checking out the volcano we finally landed at Nikolski, a bustling village of about 20 people. We were put up in a trailer till we left for Mt. Cleveland.

clev22P8021866 Nikolski from the trailer we stayed in.

clev23P8021868 I tried to get a decent shot of the boat that would take us to the volcano, but the dock it was anchored to got in the way. The boat is the blue thing behind the dock. We were hoping to get out to Mt. Cleveland on August 3rd, but the weather rolled in with wind, rain, and fog that kept us there till the morning of the 5th.

clev24P8051878 (August 5, 2003) The weather became more calm on the 5th, so we took our window after hearing that the weather would give us one. Jon, Rich, and one of the boat handlers (Scott Kerr) finished bringing the gear out to the 28 foot boat, then we were off and sailing for Mt. Cleveland.

clev25P8051884 As we got further out to sea the weather was opening up for a nice view of Vsevidof Volcano.

clev26P8051891 We eventually came upon Kagamil Island that is also an Aleutian Island volcano. The active fumaroles were very nice to see from the boat.

clev27P8051893 Kagamil Island.

clev28P8051904 The summit of Kagamil was also pretty clear.

clev29P8051910 After passing the island I got a good photo of Uliaga (left) and Kagamil (right).

clev30P8051894 I then turned around for a decent look at Chuginadak Volcano that makes up the eastern half of Chuginadak Island.

clev31P8051895 Mt. Cleveland then came into view. It makes up the western part of Chuginadak Island.

clev32P8051899 A closer view of Mt. Cleveland.

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