{"id":4966,"date":"2025-02-27T16:43:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:03:28","slug":"glaciers-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2025\/02\/27\/glaciers-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Glacier&#8217;s Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took a short hike to the edge of Sv\u00ednafellsj\u00f6kull Glacier, which you can get right up next to. When we were there the fog was flowing down it like water, and up over the neighboring hill.<\/p>\n<p>In this picture you can also see how the sandy slope appears to be layered on that hill. This is caused not (as I suspected) by repeated ash from volcanoes, but because the land thaws out and slides annually, forming a pattern like tree rings that&#8217;s common on a lot of the similar hills we saw throughout our trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/DLF_1170-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4967\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/DLF_1170-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/DLF_1170-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/DLF_1170-1600x1067.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/DLF_1170-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/DLF_1170-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/DLF_1170-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/DLF_1170-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/DLF_1170-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took a short hike to the edge of Sv\u00ednafellsj\u00f6kull Glacier, which you can get right up next to. When we were there the fog was flowing down it like water, and up over the neighboring hill. In this picture you can also see how the sandy slope appears to be layered on that hill. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2025\/02\/27\/glaciers-edge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glacier&#8217;s Edge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}