Byron Glacier! Take one!
You know we're going to be doing this again.
Here is the start of the journey on turnagain arm, headed out to Witter and Portage area. DOOM.
Here is where Kat felt like she was back in world of warcraft doing some silly quest that involves SCAT. Yes ladies and gents this is bear scat! After signing in to the book that tracks who went on the path there was a number of entries that had "saw a bear!" in the comment section. And so? POOP! yay poop! ...
DO NOT QUESTION ME!
I counter poop and bring you butterfly! He posed so nicely for me and the boy- we saw almost 21 of these guys on the walk... (loch was counting).
Along the way the glacier's stream ran out and took a pic of it and the the boychild with classic " are we there yet" face.
Here we have the task! Only after taking on an avalanche ( half of the snow is all alvalnche slides from teh mountain, the POWER of those are just... intense, trees were ground into mulch- nothing survived it... whoooa.) This veiw soon lead to :
When you go hiking with me you must know... be prepared... including taking off of shoes and socks and doing a painfully mad dash into a glacial stream. It was less than ten seconds but I lost all feeling to my feet in that time, you know the stuff they use instead of the shot if you have to have a wart removed? THAT. RIGHT THERE. Boy weathered that with girlie shrieks but did rather well and with the sun out we dried out and warmed up rather quick ( I was grateful for that mountain/icey breeze... I over heat WAY too easily) . That stream thar in the previous one? we crossed it... ^^.
Nice little surprise in the only patch of sand on the gravel bar. Large canine tracks... hi thar wolfie. That's my son's hand next to it. Had to be within the last day because we've been having rain for that last few weeks. ^^
WE CLAIM THIS LAND!
A Wild Kat has appeared!
Yes! I'm not behind the camera! Me and loch and the glacier in the background were taken by a couple of tourists who I did the same curtsey of favor for. They were from Finland it was pretty cool. I feel kind of bad because they actually tried to follow me and the kid. I mean the first leg was good to follow, old habits of finding path of least resistance and stuff... But this also includes things of " if it's flat and as the crow flies". Which ... they didn't follow us across the river, though made a good effort of wanting to by trying to build a path for it.
This is the view DOWN. Portage glacier actually traveled in that water that you see in the background and Byron you could reach from where the trail ended before...... yeah. Peeps that weather bit? *points at glaciers* they're feelin' it.
A third of the way up the glacier/avalanche area. We're aiming for the blue ice that's about a mile and a half/ two miles from this point. ( You can't get the SCOPE of the distance in these pictures... )
This is where we had to call it, the picture doesn't tell you how steep this got, and the snow is SLICK from all that lovely melting. This was way too steep to attempt ( you can't even see the glacier behind it). To show you how far we got though! This picture from earlier:
we are goats.
Then we made our way down... YAY!
It was all worth it. For those that know how things have been lately with boy-child, he-that-wears-six-grown-adults-into-piles-of-goo-and-still-wants-more-
THIS was the ending <3
Took about five hours on land- hour and a half in car <3 <3.
Here is the start of the journey on turnagain arm, headed out to Witter and Portage area. DOOM.
Here is where Kat felt like she was back in world of warcraft doing some silly quest that involves SCAT. Yes ladies and gents this is bear scat! After signing in to the book that tracks who went on the path there was a number of entries that had "saw a bear!" in the comment section. And so? POOP! yay poop! ...
DO NOT QUESTION ME!
I counter poop and bring you butterfly! He posed so nicely for me and the boy- we saw almost 21 of these guys on the walk... (loch was counting).
Along the way the glacier's stream ran out and took a pic of it and the the boychild with classic " are we there yet" face.
Here we have the task! Only after taking on an avalanche ( half of the snow is all alvalnche slides from teh mountain, the POWER of those are just... intense, trees were ground into mulch- nothing survived it... whoooa.) This veiw soon lead to :
When you go hiking with me you must know... be prepared... including taking off of shoes and socks and doing a painfully mad dash into a glacial stream. It was less than ten seconds but I lost all feeling to my feet in that time, you know the stuff they use instead of the shot if you have to have a wart removed? THAT. RIGHT THERE. Boy weathered that with girlie shrieks but did rather well and with the sun out we dried out and warmed up rather quick ( I was grateful for that mountain/icey breeze... I over heat WAY too easily) . That stream thar in the previous one? we crossed it... ^^.
Nice little surprise in the only patch of sand on the gravel bar. Large canine tracks... hi thar wolfie. That's my son's hand next to it. Had to be within the last day because we've been having rain for that last few weeks. ^^
WE CLAIM THIS LAND!
A Wild Kat has appeared!
Yes! I'm not behind the camera! Me and loch and the glacier in the background were taken by a couple of tourists who I did the same curtsey of favor for. They were from Finland it was pretty cool. I feel kind of bad because they actually tried to follow me and the kid. I mean the first leg was good to follow, old habits of finding path of least resistance and stuff... But this also includes things of " if it's flat and as the crow flies". Which ... they didn't follow us across the river, though made a good effort of wanting to by trying to build a path for it.
This is the view DOWN. Portage glacier actually traveled in that water that you see in the background and Byron you could reach from where the trail ended before...... yeah. Peeps that weather bit? *points at glaciers* they're feelin' it.
A third of the way up the glacier/avalanche area. We're aiming for the blue ice that's about a mile and a half/ two miles from this point. ( You can't get the SCOPE of the distance in these pictures... )
This is where we had to call it, the picture doesn't tell you how steep this got, and the snow is SLICK from all that lovely melting. This was way too steep to attempt ( you can't even see the glacier behind it). To show you how far we got though! This picture from earlier:
we are goats.
Then we made our way down... YAY!
It was all worth it. For those that know how things have been lately with boy-child, he-that-wears-six-grown-adults-into-piles-of-goo-and-still-wants-more-
THIS was the ending <3
Took about five hours on land- hour and a half in car <3 <3.