The Heli-hike was AMAZING!!!
These first 2 shots were from the Helicopter.
Andre’a sliding through the ice cave…. when I did it, I landed head first in the puddle at the end…. it was a nice cold bath.
She looks like a professional.
nice crampons….
This was like the slide at the end of the movie The Goonies, but better….
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some other cool photography pictures we took along the way.
Cool water droplets… aye….
By Colin and Andre’a Feldhaus
A few weeks back, our boss took some of us up on a full day glacier hike. Words can’t really describe the splendor of it all, but maybe pictures will get closer.
The sky was really this blue color in the morning of the hike. It looked surreal.
The initial ascent.
Our fearless guide…
our very confused, fearless guide…
colin...
Wow, that was a rough patch. First, I get some malware on my website. Then my host decides to not help what-so-ever. So I switched hosting companies to MediaTemple. I have a friend trying to rescue all of my previous blog posts, so hopefully we will get all of them back online sometime soon.
We have...
Last week Andre’a and I got to take a little ride with Franz Josef Glacier Helicopters. (If you’re ever in the area and want a scenic flight… these guys are the ones to use!) It was, to say the least…. amazing. Being able to fly over the glacier and see Mt. Cook up...
The Roberts Track at the Franz Josef glacier was the last of the glacier viewing tracks that we had left to conquer. This track was fairly long and we tackled it on a slightly overcast day. We ran into a little rain but it was not too bad. We had heard great things about this...
So, on one of our days off we were getting a bit stir crazy and needed something to do. It was actually a nice day outside and had heard from an Active tour Guide that the Alex Knob walk was awesome. He said you could see some amazing views of the blue ice...
(Andre’a) So, a couple weeks ago, we had a lot of rain. And by a lot of rain, i mean… A LOT OF RAIN! (Probably more than San Angelo, sees in a few years!!) The storms weren’t that unusually big, it’’s just that we had 4 of them right after another. ...
