Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Walk Across the Lake

Mendenhall Glacier

This December has been pretty cold so Mendenhall Lake was frozen over enough to walk on.  On 12/22 Richard and I walked across the lake to the face of the glacier.  It was an easy ~1.5 miles to the face, though we couldn't get too close to it since we saw cracks in the ice when got close the glacier.  Since it hadn't snowed in a while, there wasn't much snow to trudge through either.

On 12/24 Matt and I walked the lake on the other side at Skater's cabin.  That's where most people go skate skiing across the lake, but we didn't have skiis.

On 12/25 couple of people supposedly fell through the ice.  The risk of falling through always exist, so take precaution and if the ice looks dodgy, don't walk on it!

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