The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

We’re not happy about it

We already told you that there were no pictures of the first 5 hours. But Kerri took a picture of when Matt finally saw the sign saying that there was shelter in 5 minutes.

You can see the glacier in the background

After recovering in the shelter for a while we took a selfie with the glacier and pretended we were happy

Then we continued onward to the end of the glacier

And the bridges.

You already saw the pictures from Matt’s phone

These are the pictures from Kerri’s phone.

There are no pictures with an actual camera

Because everything was too wet and awful

Although you can hardly tell that from these pictures later in the afternoon.

When it was a bit better

Eventually we reached camp.

There are no pictures from the first 5 hours of day 5 of the O-Loop because it was a miserable slog and no one wanted to pull out a camera and have the lens pitted by tiny bits of rock hard ice precipitation being blown by Antarctic winds.

This is what the John Gardner pass looked like when we crossed it. There was no snow the day before, but when we crossed it went over Kerri’s waist, as we discovered when she plunged through and went straight down.

After the pass you’re supposed to be able to see the glacier. We could kind of tell there was a glacier there but didn’t take any pictures because of frostbite. This is from much further down.

Before that we crossed this little bridge to the shack where we could have some ramen and start to feel our fingers again.

Then we crossed a much bigger bridge

And saw more glacier.

And then the foot of the glacier

Don’t we look happy?

Then we crossed another big bridge

And another

And then there was a woodpecker near the end of a miserable slog across and then down a mountain pass.

We set off again through the forest

And up

We again had spectacular views of the mountains

Occasionally we could even see bits of them

We crossed some bridges

Some were barely bridges

Others were brand new bridges

Which was good because there were some rough rivers

There were weird mushrooms in the trees

Eventually we reached the glacier

It’s not a big glacier

But it was the end for the day.