Glacier School @ Cerise Creek

The VOC (Varsity Outdoor Club) offered a glacier school. We learned how to build snow anchors, how to construct a z-pulley and a lot of other stuff.


We were quite a few people

 

on the way to our camp, the peaks in the back

 

Mount Joffre

 

Kerstin just before the Moraine

 

our camp at the base of the glacier

 

Kerstin and Seppel

 

rope up on the glacier

 

building snow anchors

 

Kerstin in a moat

 

Kerstin is using the z-pulley and tries to pull Seppel out

 

 

on the way down the glacier

 

back at camp

 

sunset

 

the next day: rain

 

hiking down

 

later on in the Keith hut, dry school

 

 

our camp, packing up

 

Seppel hiking along the ridge

 

Kerstin, tired and sleeping in the car

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