Brent Knight
The group, hanging out on a spur at the edge of the glacier before hiking back down to civilization. Casey shuttled us over to the start of the hike on the snowmobile so it takes awhile for everyone to get over there. At least it was a pretty nice day, we couldn't see down into the Girdwood Valley because of the low clouds but we could see back towards the glacier.
Nicole Deyoung. And she was standing very scenically until just as I took the picture Kate accidentally caused a rock to slide down the talus slope and Nicole turned to look.
Kate Arduser (Pearson) before the start of our 2hr hike down.
On this part of the hike down I was thrilled to find a bunch of forget-me-nots-- the Alaskan state flower.
Casey, Colin, Nicole, & Katie pausing on a bluff.
On the way down we found a nice waterhole in the stream so some of us decided to experience Eagle Glacier in its other form.
Peter Kling from VT, one of next year's freshman on the team for APU.
Then Casey Fagerquist took a dip....and then I did, of course! I was dreaming about glacial runoff water all last year, how could I resist?
Then we all made it safely home and I drank two cans of diet dr. pepper, what can I say, I have my vices.
posted by LAV at 11:19
4 Comments:
Noticed your comment about Diet DP. Just wanted to mention that diet drinks can really mess with you capillary refill, and you may notice this with your freezing fingers on cold days (this sure used to happen to me until I figured this out). If it's really cold out, switch to water. Start slamming diet drinks when it warms back up.
::sigh:: Capillary refill is pretty crucial. Luckily I almost always only drink soda when it's hot out. Thanks for the heads up though.
ps - make sure you don't get the "nina kempell" addiction: diet pepsi and chew. gross!
yuck, no way, the occasional diet soda is as far as bad as I get. I'm not even into coffee. It's a shame that so many coaches & skiers get into smokeless tobacco.
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