Viedma Glacier Trek
We were about to board the boat on the right side of the dock to get a lift out to the foot of the glacier
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From the boat
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Icebergs on Lake Viedma
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Icebergs on Lake Viedma
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Icebergs on Lake Viedma
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Lake Viedma from the boat
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Icebergs on Lake Viedma, the wind was picking up now and blowing spray
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Iceberg on Lake Viedma
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From the boat
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Icebergs on Lake Viedma
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Icebergs on Lake Viedma
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Icebergs on Lake Viedma
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Icebergs on Lake Viedma
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Icebergs on Lake Viedma
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Cris's profile, looking out the boat window
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Cris's profile, looking out the boat window
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The foot of the glacier is coming into sight
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The foot of the glacier is coming into sight
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The foot of the glacier
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The foot of the glacier
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The foot of the glacier
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The foot of the glacier
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The foot of the glacier
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The foot of the glacier
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The foot of the glacier, from the top deck of the boat
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The foot of the glacier, from the top deck of the boat
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Cris on the top deck of the boat
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An iceberg in Lake Viedma, near the foot of the glacier
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The foot of the glacier, from the top deck of the boat
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Looking back the way we came, from the top deck of the boat
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I was fascinated by the intersection of the glacier and rock and water
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Right side of the foot of the glacier
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I was trying to figure out what hte black thing was, I think it was a rock that had melted a bit into the ice
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Left side of the foot of the glacier
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Foot of the glacier
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Looking back the way we came, from the top deck of the boat, it was a gorgeous day
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Looking back the way we came, from the top deck of the boat
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Looking back the way we came, from the top deck of the boat
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Right side of the foot of the glacier
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Right side of the foot of the glacier
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Cris on the top deck of the boat - it was WINDY
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Cris on the top deck of the boat
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Me on the top deck of the boat, you can sort of see my jacket billowed out by the high winds
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Foot of the glacier with one of the enclosing mountains behind it
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Foot of the glacier with one of the enclosing mountains behind it
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Foot of the glacier
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Right side of the glacier foot
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Left side of hte glacier foot
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An iceberg near the foot of the glacier as the boat moved to the rock where we would disembark
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An iceberg near the foot of the glacier
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Moving to disembark on the rock at the left side of the glacier
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On the rocks
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The rocks were smoothed by the motion of ice
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Looking back from the rocks to Lake Viedma
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Cris getting ready to climb over the rocks to the ice
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Cris climbing over the rocks to the ice
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Rocks worn down by ice
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Looking back at Lake Viedma
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A lookout to the left of the glacier foot, with calved bergs in the water
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Looking back at Lake Viedma
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Looking back at Lake Viedma, we went past that iceberg on our way in
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Foot of the glacier
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Closer view of some of the glacier ice, from the rocks
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Cris on the rocks at the edge of the glacier
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Foot of the glacier
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Foot of the glacier with the calved ice
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Grooves in the rocks from the motion of ice. The footing was a bit treacherous.
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Foot of the glacier
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Climbing over the rocks to the ice
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Climbing over the rocks to the ice
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Climbing over the rocks to the ice
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The guides opening up the cache of crampons
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The foot of the glacier where it meets the rocks, it was much darker than I expected, with lots of rocks on the top of the ice
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An isolated pool of ice melt near the foot of the glacier
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Ice and rock with mountains in the background
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Intersection of ice and rock
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Intersection of ice and rock, we didn't get to go into any ice caves though
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Putting on crampons
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On the glacier!
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The guides preparing an ice bridge for us to cross
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The holes in the surface of the glacier fascinated me, rocks would hold sun heat and melt into the ice
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Looking back at Lake Viedma from on the glacier
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Cris crossing the ice bridge
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Cris crossing the ice bridge
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Cris crossing the ice bridge
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Looking toward the bulk of the ice sheet
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Me on the glacier, it was windy and cold, but when the wind died it was warm enough to shed a few layers - I also got a sunburn despite two layers of sunscreen, the reflected light was inescapable
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Looking back at Lake Viedma from on the glacier
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Looking back at Lake Viedma from on the glacier
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Glacier trekking
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Cris on the glacier
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A melt hole in the glacier surface
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Glacier trekking
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Glacier and guiding rocks
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A melt hole in the glacier surface
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Water and rocks on the glacier surface
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The woman in the centre was the trek official photographer
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Pausing at a crack in the ice
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Pausing at a crack in the ice
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Rocks on the glacier surface
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Wind and sun sculpted ice
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Random ice crack
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Wind and sun sculpted ice
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Scouting a route
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Our head guide
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Cris and the head guide
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Wind and sun sculpted ice
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Blue ice!
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Cris pausing to take a photo
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More melt holes and blue ice
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Yup, more ice :)
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Layers of ice
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Looking back toward Lake Viedma
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Cris and one of the German speaking members of our party
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Cris on the glacier
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More ice
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Glacier, bits of Lake Viedma, and the encircling mountains
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Wind and sun sculpted ice
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Wind and sun sculpted ice
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Hero shot! :)
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Dirty surface of the glacier with a random rock
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Carefully making our way down a slope
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Carefully making our way down a slope
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An arch in the ice
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An arch in the ice
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More rocks and a melt hole
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Cris taking off some layers as the wind died down
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Edge of an ice ridge
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We went back toward the lake and then in again
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An iceberg on Lake Viedma
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More rock melt
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More rock melt
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I was trying to get a good picture of Cris here...
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but he wandered away :)
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Ice ridges
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Melt hole
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Heading deeper into the ice
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Cris
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Wind and sun sculpted ice
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They split the party and we took turns walking up narrow ridges of ice
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Looking back at Lake Viedma
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Climbing up to the edge of an ice ridge
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On the edge of an ice ridge
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On the edge of an ice ridge
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Looking over the edge of an ice ridge
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My favourite shot, you can see the ice crystals in the ridge, and the mountains that contain the glacier
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More ice
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Looking back at Lake Viedma
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Looking back at Lake Viedma as we made our way back toward the boat landing
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Ice crystal detail
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Ice ridges
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The official photographer heading deeper into the ice field
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Closer look at the ice
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Guide hacking some steps on a narrow ridge for us
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More ice ridges
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Photo consultation
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Cris on the ice
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Ice features
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Dirt embedded in the ice
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Looking back at Lake Viedma
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Ice ridges
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Looking back at Lake Viedma
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Looking back along the line of our party
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Guides digging out ice for our glasses
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Ice ridges
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Guides serving out Bailey's with glacier ice
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Guides serving out Bailey's with glacier ice
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My cup of glacier ice
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My cup of glacier ice
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Cris getting a shot of Bailey's
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Cris with his shot of Bailey's
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Opening another bottle
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My hiking boots with crampons - right around then a wind gust caught Cris and he stepped on my foot with his crampons, luckily my boots were thick and I was fine
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More ice, as I sipped my drink
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Looking back at Lake Viedma
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Cris on the ice
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Ice ridges
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Cris on the ice
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Ice ridges
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The guides at the ice excavation point
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Guide pack plus tiny ice filled pond
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The boat coming back to get us (really)
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Heading back to the landing
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Rocks embedded in ice
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Coming down off the glacier and getting our crampons rinsed
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Back on the rock
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Ice cave
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Caching the crampons again
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Back over the rocks to the boat landing site
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Back over the rocks to the boat landing site
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Back over the rocks to the boat landing site
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We weren't supposed to touch the ice (it was sharp), but I couldn't resist. :) Photo from Cris