Today we left Andy back in McCarthy with Dynamite and we headed in to Kennicott for our 1/2 day Glacier Tour. It had rained during the night and we were a little worried about the weather, but it soon cleared and turned out to be a very pretty day.
We met our guides, Chris and Nabil and after getting fitted for our crampons, we were soon on the 2 1/4 mile trail heading for the Root Glacier. There were just 5 in our group. Barb, Sharon, me and 2 other women from Germany.
We were in great spirits as we headed up the trail and very excited about the upcoming adventure. Here you can see the Root Glacier behind me.
Barb was checking out the many wildflowers that grew along the trail.
Here we are putting our crampons on before we begin our ascent onto the glacier. This climb was the most difficult of the day.
Once we got to the top the view was just absolutely breath-taking. All I could think of was the song, Our God is an Awesome God. No offense Pastor Pat, but this was better than any sermon.
This is our climbing team. The German ladies, Barb, Sharon, Nabil and Chris.
Here we are having lunch on the glacier. Lunch never tasted so good as it did today, and I was never so ready to sit down and take a break as I was here. We all agreed that this was the absolute best time ever!
After lunch we walked to this lake that had formed on top of the glacier. The blues were beautiful. Pictures just don't do it justice.
This was a hole in the ice and Nabil didn't know how deep it was, he just kept saying that it was "deep"!
Here we are before we started back down off of the glacier. That was the second most difficult simply because by now, after walking several miles around on top of the glacier with spikes attached to my boots, my legs felt like jelly. Then after we did get down and took the crampons off we still had a 2 mile hike back to the shuttle bus. But we made it and it was one of the best days so far. Amen, what a Sunday.
Today we left Andy back in McCarthy with Dynamite and we headed in to Kennicott for our 1/2 day Glacier Tour. It had rained during the night and we were a little worried about the weather, but it soon cleared and turned out to be a very pretty day.
We met our guides, Chris and Nabil and after getting fitted for our crampons, we were soon on the 2 1/4 mile trail heading for the Root Glacier. There were just 5 in our group. Barb, Sharon, me and 2 other women from Germany. 
We were in great spirits as we headed up the trail and very excited about the upcoming adventure. Here you can see the Root Glacier behind me.
Barb was checking out the many wildflowers that grew along the trail.
Here we are putting our crampons on before we begin our ascent onto the glacier. This climb was the most difficult of the day.
Once we got to the top the view was just absolutely breath-taking. All I could think of was the song, Our God is an Awesome God. No offense Pastor Pat, but this was better than any sermon.
This is our climbing team. The German ladies, Barb, Sharon, Nabil and Chris.
Here we are having lunch on the glacier. Lunch never tasted so good as it did today, and I was never so ready to sit down and take a break as I was here. We all agreed that this was the absolute best time ever!
After lunch we walked to this lake that had formed on top of the glacier. The blues were beautiful. Pictures just don't do it justice.
This was a hole in the ice and Nabil didn't know how deep it was, he just kept saying that it was "deep"!
Here we are before we started back down off of the glacier. That was the second most difficult simply because by now, after walking several miles around on top of the glacier with spikes attached to my boots, my legs felt like jelly. Then after we did get down and took the crampons off we still had a 2 mile hike back to the shuttle bus. But we made it and it was one of the best days so far. Amen, what a Sunday.
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