Yesterday was my day off, and so me and Sara (IT) - who was also a hike guide with me last summer - decided that we should go and find a nice hike to do. We from a couple of the other staff about Gasternspitz - which is on the ridge up to Balmhorn. The route goes up past Balmhornhutte (which I did the other day) and up a really awesome ridge towards Balmhorn. The views up to Balmhorn we amazing and also into the Gasterntal valley - you can see all the of the Kanderfirn and Petersgrat which is part of the Snow & Ice Expedition that I run. Supposedly you can also get down onto the Lotschenpass, but we had a look at the path (it's the seventh picture in this set) and decided that you'd have to be insane to go down there....
The picture at the end you can just about see the peak - the little pointy one right in the middle.Sunday 14 August 2011
Snow & Ice Expedition
One of the activities that I run as a Snow & Ice Guide is the Snow & Ice Expedition (formerly known as the Petersgrat Expedition), where we take groups up and over the Kanderfirn Glacier to stay at the Mutthornhutte, then over the Petersgrat ridge the next day. These photos are actually from two separate Expeditions that I ran, but I thought I'd combine them as the pictures are pretty similar.
The first one that I have pictures from is actually the first Expedition that I successfully managed to get to the hut - we often have to cancel this hike due to the weather - and so I decided that I wanted to go up the Mutthorn before dinner at the hut. The Mutthorn is a fairly small ridge at the end of the Kanderfirn, and the hut sits at the bottom of it. I got some awesome pictures which really show the scale of the Kanderfirn, although the weather could have been a bit nicer :)
On the second Expedition we had a lot nicer weather - possibly the best of the summer so far, and so I took a lot of pictures on the way up and at the hut. The big mountain that you can see looking back down the glacier is Balmhorn (3698m), the biggest peak in the Kandersteg area. Hopefully I'll get to do that before the end of the season...
At the hut there are some impressive views all around - the mountain that I am "holding up" is the back side of the Eiger, to the right of it is the Jungfrau. Supposedly the back side of the Eiger is the "easy" way up, but from the looks of things its pretty impossible.
Finally I got some pictures at the top of the Petersgrat ridge, looking down into the Lotschental valley, and beyond into the "real" Alps - the really big peaks. Also we had some fun in the snow up there - the group wer pretty cool and we took some good pictures. The final two pictures are from a little ice cave just where we get off the ice - lots of cool stalactites.
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