Michelle and Sue on Gates Glacier
I just got back the other day from a five day Donoho Glacier backpacking trek. The group was a couple of Aussie ladies from Perth and the lived up to my expectations of Australians as fun and adventurous folk.
We started off hiking across the Root Glacier and right away we had a great time exploring the ice. It was a little frustrating not being able to see the icefall on the first day due to some smoke conditions but things cleared up nicely the next day.
We spent two days camped near the Gates glacier and spent one day hiking around there on the Gates and checking out the fins, melt streams, moulins and other cool features.
On the way back to Kennicott we spent the last night camped out on the Kennicott glacier. Michelle was a little unnerved at first by all the sounds that a glacier makes and was certain that it was going to open up and swallow her whole at any moment.
But we all survived the night and made the easy hike in to Kennicott the next morning.
All in all it was a great backpacking trek and I got to learn more about Australia.
I’m heading out in the morning for a 7 day Pyramid Peak trek so I’ll post a bit about that trip in a week or so.
Happy Trails!
Greg
What better way to pass a cold winter day than revisiting some great trips from last summer. I’ll be posting a few short write-ups with photos over the next month or two.
