A Troubling, Soft Underfoot
Shea Chang
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Grand River, Ontario: Summer swim across river, rest in a small grotto.

Ashbridges Bay, Lake Ontario: Early spring walk along shore amidst brush and swamp.

Rainforest Tofino, BC: Walk in rainforest across fallen cedars to a light dappled swamp to watch reflections.

Mackenzie Beach, Tofino BC: When tide is low, walk across beach to island. Enter the island through the gaps between deadwood. Nap on rotted bark or nestled between rocks. Return before high tide.

Vatnajokull, Iceland: Cycle on windy road alongside the southernmost tip of glacier. Cross each melting river that reaches out towards the ocean. Feel the presence of the glacier in periphery, and each elevation change tinge in your legs.

Skaftafel, Iceland: Sit on a push moraine hill of a glacier and listen to it melt and crack. Look at the green, black and brown hillside through the holes in the ice.

Finn Slough, Richmond, BC: Cross the broken bridge to the boardwalk. Imagine the water moving through the dried eel grasses left behind on the boat below.

Air Canada Flight from YVR to YQR: Fly through clouds over Rockies and across plough line patterns disrupted by occasional Albertan coulees.


Push Moraine


Definition of Moraine: Any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.

It is unstratified when dropped by the glacier and shows no sorting or bedding.