Chilkat Valley News - Serving Haines and Klukwan, Alaska since 1966

Courtesy of Drake Olsen.

Drake Olsen said the Bertha Lake flooded and blew through its terminal morraine during last week's rains. What was once a small creek surrounded by trees is now filled with debris from hillsides of the drainage. Olsen said he could fly his plane below the cliffs near the lake mouth.