Nope, nothing to do with Phil Spector. We were onboard the Lulubell from Valdez and we sailed to the Columbia Glacier, a massive five mile wide 200 to 300 foot tall ice flow. The captain took us to about 1/4 mile from the glacier and shut down. We drifted toward the wall rather slowly but ended up less than 1000 feet where he kept us steady. You could hear cracks and creaks and snaps and booms and splashes over and over, some loud some subtle but never quiet. Looking at the photo, the colors, the many cracks and slits are easy to spot and each of those a potential fault leading to a large calving of ice. And we saw that - more on Monday.
