The view from Long Rifle Lodge, about Mile 103 on the Glenn Highway northeast of Anchorage. Matanuska Glacier is just upstream, to the left of our view. The side of the river below us is a 1,700 ft. altitude. Notice the airplanes parked on the Glacier Park airstrip. From here, they look like tiny toys, Along the river, some of the willows and birch are changing into fall yellow. We're standing at 2,000 ft. altitude. The highest point on that mountain peak across from us is five miles away from us, at altitude 5,800 feet. This is a place of volume and big space. All work done from life on location over about three weeks. For a brief time during the final week, the low, late afternoon sun suddenly broke through the cloud cover and brightened the peaks and ridges as you see here. The artist work rapidly to get this dramatic lighting in the painting. In the distance on the left, is a patch of glowing, cold white ice of another glacier. / Strip frame painted off-black with alkyd oil paint. Also see related paintings of Matanuska Glacier, a quick oil sketch SG-2010 and the glacier aglow in the fading light at dusk, SG-2028.