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.
