Jarvis Glacier
March 17, Page 2
The challenge waits!
The light was gray and flat,
but the snow was hard, so it seemed we had a chance to get up near the top of the glacier,
a feat not usually possible.
Our borough Mayor, Jerry Lapp
with his tripple 700 Yamaha, somewhere up on the glacier.
It was about here, we had a short break, then I led the way on up the glacier.
The light got worse and quickly I discoved I could not see. There was nothing in the air, I just could not see the snow right below my sled.
Everything was gray.
It is quite a feeling to drive slowly not knowing if you will go up or down,
or drop off a cliff!
you tell yourself if you try you can make out something.
But you can't.
In a case like this you finally take off your hat and throw it out in front, then drive to it and do it again.
It is lots of fun but just seeing your hat gives you complete reference, without it you get a strange vertigo.
Once I looked back and knew no one was following me, I decided to turn around.
As soon as I saw my tracks I had good reference and had no trouble moving forward, yet it was like a twilite zone episode where I could see my tracks snaking out through a gray cloud in a gray outerspace.
Quite the experience.
Photo courtesy of Jerry Lapp
On our way back down off the glacier, we found this Ice cave.
So of course we had to investigate!
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