Information About

Tonsina Glacier

Quick Facts

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Location

61 ° 18' 50" N,
145 ° 48' 50" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Length

11 mi (17.7 km)

Elevation

4268 ft (1300.89 m)

Uses

Tonsina Glacier in Detail.

Getting There

The easiest way to access the Tonsina is via a helicopter from Valdez. Or in winter Tok Air Service flies out of Thompson Pass and Valdez and can land on the Tonsina.

However the most popular way to access the Tonsina is riding a snowmachine (snowmobile) up the Tsina River on to the Tsina Glacier and up over the first fork immediately to the north (right).

About

heads at 611745N1455830W, trends E to its terminus (1951) at head of Tonsina River, 25 mi. NE of Valdez, Chugach Mts.

The Tonsina Glaicer is a easy to access glacier located just outside of Valdez, a little ways back from Thompson Pass. It’s a good gentle sloping glacier for traveling on and has a few good places to setup for a glacier ski camp.

History

Name published in 1933 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Topo Maps

Valdez B-5 (1951), Valdez B-5 (1951), Valdez (1952), Valdez (1952), Valdez (1952), Valdez (1952), Valdez (1960), Valdez (1960), Valdez (1960), Valdez (1960), Valdez (1960), Valdez (1960), Valdez B-5 (1995), Valdez B-5 SW (2016),
Places Near Tonsina Glacier
Crags:

101 Wall, Blueberry Block, Republic of Boulder, The Sunny Side,

Flats:

Dutch Flat,

Glaciers:

Corbin Glacier, Don Glacier, DOT Glacier, Hogback Glacier, Keystone Glacier, Scorpion Glacier, Tonsina Glacier, Tsina Glacier, Twentyseven Mile Glacier, Worthington Glacier,

Routes:

Angel, Spring Loaded,

Lakes:

Blueberry Lake, Greyling Lake, Thompson Lake, Trap Lake, Worthington Lake,

Locales:

19 Mile Wall, Bald Boy, Bro Bowl, Catchers Mitt, Cracked Ice, DOT Face, Fracture Canyon, Girls, Heavenly, Heiden View Face, Little Girls, Little Odyssey, Loveland Basin, Mega Sumo, Moonlight Basin, Nick's Happy Valley, North Odyssey, Python, Road Run, School Bus, Skate Park, Snatch, Vertigo,

Mountains:

Black Mountain, Camp Mountain, Girls Mountain, Odessey,

Parks:

Blueberry Lake State Recreation Site,

Mountain Passes:

Ptarmigan Drop, Thompson Pass,

Peaks:

Acapulco, Berlin Wall, Mount Bonet, F-Top, Goodwills, Little Matterhorn, Loveland Peak, Python, Repeater Peak, Sapphire, Sina Benchmark, Tones Temple, Twentyseven Mile Peak,

Streams:

Bear Creek, Bench Creek, Heiden Creek, Ptarmigan Creek, Sheep Creek, Wortmanns Creek,

Routes:

DOT Glacier Trail, Little Odessey Trail, Thompson Pass Pipeline Access Road, Worthington Glacier Ridge Trail,

Valleys:

Heiden Canyon,

Cities:

Ptarmigan, Wortmanns,