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Bill Glude
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Alaskan avalanche specialist; Fond du Lac Ojibwe. My photos; curated news; resistance; no AI.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 8h
Today's soggy latte and raven break, Dzantik'i Heeni, Aaak'w Kwáan, Lingít Aaní. ❤️
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 1d
Latte and raven break this morning, Dzantik'i Heeni, Aaak'w Kwáan, Lingít Aaní.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 2d
I’d write a song that says “ I love you like a raven loves the wind,” but I don’t know if a human heart can hold that much of that kind of love. - quote from myself; watching them ride the storm today, Dzantik'i Heeni, Aaak'w Kwáan, Lingít Aaní.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 3d
Southbound on the Columbia, to work on my Juneau house. Shgagwei, Lkoot Kwa’an, Lingít Aaní.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 4d
What a morning - calm, sunny, +4°C, and fresh snow down to 1200m! Shgagwei, Lkoot Kw'aan, Lingít Aaní.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 5d
Our No Kings march today in Shgagwei, Lkoot Kw'aan, Lingít Aaní; video from Jonathan Hillis on Facebook.

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Skagway showing up and showing out. Quite the sight on the historic Broadway. #nokings #democracy #skagway #alaska
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 5d
Update: as of the evening of the 18th, nationwide turnout estimates are in the 7 million range; making this the largest-ever protest in the US, and the count will grow as they add in all the little towns like ours. It has been overwhelmingly peaceful; with no reported violence or lawbreaking.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 5d
My drum all ready for No Kings Day today in Shgagwei, Lkoot Kw'aan, Lingít Aaní. We turned out just over 60 people, a great 5-10% turnout for a small town!
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 11d
Skating lessons with Heather and the grandkids yesterday at the Lynnwood Ice Center, Coast Salish territory.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 14d
My daughter Heather's birthday dinner last eveninf in Seattle, with grandkids Kiddo and Kidlet.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 17d
Ísafjörður to Reykjavik flight yesterday; in New York City for Seattle today.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 19d
Final Snow conference day, Ísafjörður, Iceland. Hiking from Selajandsdalur to Hnifdalur, view south from the summit of the pass.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 20d
Dinner at Tjoruhusid, Ísafjörður tonight. Great seafood served single sitting with hilarity and family style, in a cabin from the 1700s. .
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 21d
These two guys playing and singing traditional Icelandic music were a highlight of the Snow conference banquet tonight in Ísafjörður.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 21d
Ha, look what I found in the local bookstore today! I was desperately in need of good reading for the trip to Seattle at the end of the week, too. 😊
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 22d
Field trip day, looking at avalanche defenses in the region around Ísafjörður. Takeaways: 1. community economies and leaders are still devastated by the losses of thirty years ago, and 2. they have been really busy building and improving the defenses since I was last here 15 years ago.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 23d
It has been my greatest disappointment to see the CBJ drop the ball so badly on the avalanche problem. The job, quite simply, remains undone.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 23d
They were stopgaps, until we could buy out all the houses in the avalanche zones, and build defensive berms to contain slides to the main paths, ptotecting the high school and adjacent homes.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 23d
I came to Iceland in 2008 to learn from their experience, and used that knowledge to finally get the City and Borough of Juneau to act on their very similar avalanche exposure. I got CBJ to hire a forecaster, and helped them develop a response plan, but those were to be the first, temporary steps.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 23d
The officers who were among the first responders to the big urban avalanches in Iceland's Westfjords thirty years ago presented today on their experience. It was heart-wrenching hearing the stories of neighbors digging in a blizzard, and seeing the photos of those lost, mostly children.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 23d
Woo might have to see if I can find it at Third Place in Seattle... thanks!
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 23d
Cool; who is the author again? Sounds like one I should read when I get home!
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 24d
Celebrating the survival of our Indigenous heritage on Orange Shirt day in Ísafjörður, Iceland. If you go back a few generations, we all come from Indigenous roots, and it is the revival of those traditions that will take us to a sustainable society. Chi miigwech! 🙏❤️
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 24d
And they share the same lively interest, singing down to those who notice them. I’m here for a week; will have to keep watching them. I’ll be back to Juneau and then Skagway mid-October; will have to compare with ours when I get home. Sounds like a book worth reading.
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Bill Glude @billglude.bsky.social · 24d
Interesting! I was noting today that the ravens here, unlike more southerly ones, seem to speak the same dialect as ours in Alaska.
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