Alas, it snowed more in the night. It only left about 10 centimeters (4 inches), but that was enough to upset our plans. Walking on a glacier is tricky enough even when you can see the rocks, but walking on top of a blanket of snow is dangerous.

So, instead of moving up to the end of the glacial valley, we could do nothing but sit in our tent and read. And with the end of our time approaching, we would not have enough time to go up to the base camp with the best mountain views, which had been our ultimate goal. At best we might be able to make a dayhike further up the valley if weather was good the next day.

At least it was beautiful.

Clouds continued to blow through all evening, but no more snow. The clouds continued in the night and we resigned ourselves to going down a day early.