Day 13 – Sept 12 – A long hike up the glacier


We knew this would be our longest day hiking eight hours up the glacier. There were no good campsites in between, and some of the route was reportedly challenging.

The weather was also uncooperative. Morning clouds warned us of precipitation, which turned out to be snow. Fortunately, there were also periods of sunshine, so we could put up with a couple of hour-long snow showers. The glacier's rock cover was warm enough to melt the snow immediately.


The glacier walking was not as hard as we had feared. This time we were going with the grain of the glacier, so long stretches were like hiking up a rock-covered valley. There were several sections, though, where we had to go up and down and around ice cliffs and glacial lakes. And we had to cover a long distance, so we were both quite tired when we reached camp.



Soon after we arrived, another snow shower hit and left about 5 centimeters (2 inches) of snow on the ground. We ate dinner inside our very small tent and hoped for better weather in the morning.

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