3 hours drive from home!

"On a hippie trail thats full of Zombies". Not really, but the Anniversary Glacier is in between the two peaks that you see in front.

Mt Matier on the left and Mt Joffre on the right with the glacier in between. Our camp spot is on top the hump down from Matier`s right shoulder.

Looking at the North face of Joffre in what appears to be a forrested clearing. It is actually a clearing created by a 1/100 year avalanche. If you look closely you can see the tops of the young trees on an angle away from the mountain.

After 5 hours we reach the moraines where we look South up the glacier. Matier on the left and Joffre just out off view on the right. The rocks on the Col (a sholder between two mountains) at the top centre, is where we hiked and turned arround.

Comming down.

Craig and the thousand mile mountain stare with Mt Joffre in the background. No trees and the talus slope indicates thats we are near camp and at the end of our 6 hour approach.

Home Sweet Home! for the next 3 days anyway. Nikkers is out of the wind in the kitchen making some soup. The temperature drops quickly when the sun is gone and with the camp set up we have nothing to do but admire the view.

Nikkers early on the 2nd morning enjoying the only blue sky we saw that day. The clouds fill the valley below which gave us terrible, wet and cold conditions all day.

Laurie the first on the left, has pretended to fall into a crevasse. Paul is standing watching Craig build and anchor to take Laurie`s weight. Rohan, Kathy and Nicole G with Nikkers bracing to hold Laurie.

Nikkers on belay!

Trudging up the glacier which is hard with 7 different people. From Craig you see Rohan, Nikkers, Nicole G, Kathy, Laurie and Paul to ensure we dont fall......

......into one of these!

We made it to the top arround 5pm. Enough time for a drink, a snack and one quick photo be fore we head back down getting into camp on dark to finish off a bottle of Scotch. It really does warm the cockles.

Cerise Creek looking South towards Mt Joffre.