Nugget Mountain and Split Thumb

WEST JUNEAU WEEKLY PICTURE

Nugget Mountain and Split Thumb

Nugget Mountain and Split Thumb.

Nugget Mountain – 5,587 ft. on the left and Split Thumb – 5,523 ft. on the right, as viewed from the Lemon Creek valley. On the the other side of the those mountains and the snow and ice-capped ridge is the Juneau Icefield.

Picture by O. Richard (Dick) Kent, 2:51 p.m. AST, February 7, 2011, © 2011