After posting pictures of my glacier adventure with Pete, I managed to get out for another glacier walk. This time it was along part of the Haut Glacier d’Arolla. My aim was to try and get a decent photograph of the Bouquetins refuge hut. I had seen this hut in the far distance during a walk up to the Plans de Bertol and I wondered how close I might be able get.
In the event, I didn’t see it at all, as I was too low down in the valley. Though, after zooming in on some of my photos, I have just spotted the top of it, peeking out on the hump to the left of picture 18. Nevertheless, it was a new and exciting walk for me.
As you will see, it’s a big glacier and I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to get onto it, but another hiker came along as I was taking some photos and I followed his tracks up to the central, medial moraine of the glacier. (You can just about see him, slightly to the left of centre, in picture 17).
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Wow image #17 is really shows how enormous this landscape is! If you hadn’t pointed him out I would have missed him entirely. He looks like an insect on that terrain. What an extraordinary place to live Mike! Super!
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Yes, it’s quite staggering how big these glaciers are (and this was a relatively small one). I posted this picture a while back which shows (if you zoom in) several people waiting to get onto the glacier (right of centre) and a group of people in a line on the glacier (just below the angled grey line in the middle of the photo): https://alittlebitoutoffocus.com/2020/04/02/oberland-odyssey-days-1-2/#jp-carousel-20631
And then this is one of my all-time favourite photos of our group, weaving our way between the crevasses, on the Aletsch glacier: https://alittlebitoutoffocus.com/2018/01/20/aletsch-glacier/
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Fabulous! Thank you so much for sharing these great adventures!
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You’re welcome. 😊
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No butterflies this trip?
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No, sorry! I think I may have seen one or two, but not close enough to capture. I suspect that it may now be the end of the ‘season’, especially as we’ve just had some snow in our valley!
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Fabulous as always, Mike!
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Thanks Donna! 😊
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