Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Harding Ice Fields

4 of my girlfriends and I went to Seward for the weekend and hiked up to the harding Ice Fields. I was a very strenuous hike. We gained 1000 ft every mile and went 7.5 miles rounds trip. It was amazing and absolutely gorgeous!! We saw a bear, tons of mountain goats and a cute little marmot that posed for us to take his picture. It took us 8 hours to complete the hike and boy am I sore!! It was so fun spending time with these amazing ladies!!

Erin and I slept in this rooftop tent. These are the coolest things that my friends sells. They come in different sizes and someday we want to get one!!

Erin and I attempting to start a fire with nothing but matches and wood. It took awhile but we did it!

The glacier from the top. I think it looks like a giant frozen waterfall. The views were amazing

Here are the 5 of us that went. Nothing like hiking in the snow in August

Here is one view looking down.

This was just a cute little river and a cute little bridge

Me

Close up of the glacier

2 comments:

Britani said...

Wow Karen, that looks awesome. Good job on the hike!! Miss you guys!!

Carolyn Townsend said...

What beautiful pictures. I am glad you had fun. Plan another next year and I will be there.