Friday, December 24, 2010

Lonnge Wayt and Longger Hykes

View from atop our mountains

The Ak Chin of the Onyx river. ie. The beginnings of a river. Look below for higher flow in the same spot.



Multi tasking on Crescent with PFD, flowtracker, and leveling rod...Chad = PRO

Chris in front of the headwaters of Canada stream

Reminds me of CBS...CryptoBioticSoil in Utah

Moss or Algae??? It is everywhere at Canada.

Canada Glacier forming waterfalls, ice islands, and eventually Canada stream

Cathedral spires of the glacier

I believe there is a Porsche outside our Kitchen

safety first with Chad!

Chad in the wudder of the Onyx and Chris stepping and tromping in the back

Porsche in the Wright valley

Onyx River after flow...90 cfs

nobody guages streams bettererer

islands of clouds over the glacier to Marble Point
It has been a while, but I have been quite busy. We have to eventually rebuild one of the controls (dams) for the streams and it is all flowing rather heavy and full of silt. Just the other day at a stream called "Lost Seal" The entire pool behind the dam was actually just filled with sand and overflowing the control. Aside from that it has been pretty exciting and I have gotten to new heights and seen new glaciers and foreign mountains.



Been flying around a lot and driving on thin ice with 6-wheelers. I have broken through a couple of times. But luckily it is only top melt and not straight through to the actual lake...ha



Well I thought I figured out how to load videos on here but then it quit on me. Check out the panorama of the top of the mountain HERE.





Who knows where to go from here

Lister...

The hike up and Chad being that small dot. Ferrar glacier to Ross ice shelf to Ross Island and Erebus/McMurdo follows

kickin it exxstream team style on the apex

Tired before Bumper Bar. Full and energetic 10 seconds later.

Bumper Bars = the fuel of Antarctica. 2nd ingredient = butter!!!

Taylor Glacier again carving its way through the valley and abruptly ending at Bonney lake and Blood falls

Mt. L*I$S%T^E@R

Chad checkin out Taylor Valley

EXXSTREAM TEAM

The last few were from the large hill behind us. It rises 4000 feet although it looks like a small rise from the Earth. We also had to hike about 5 miles to get to the base through "Moon dust" that sucks your feet out and makes walking impossible. Notice Mt. Lister in the background at 13,199ft. Named after a British Royal Society Member who more likely than not, ever made his way to the top, let alone even viewed the mountain. Aside from this disregard for names, it is the most featured mountain I have ever witnessed. Rises straight out of nothing like a volcano, yet possess the knife edges and saddles like a newly glacier carved rock.

Santa Fe stream raging and full of ice HERE
More Santa Fe Shenanigans HERE
More videos maybe later when my computer doesn't suck and turn off on me?



Santa Fe stream workin its way through rock mud and ice

This is supposed to be water rushing out of a hole in the ice

Sad Dismal and Dirty Bonney camp

Rockstar on a fitting Helo Pad

Bonney camp

Our flight out of Bonney


This bag of now WORLD FAMOUS Mrs. D and Me Carmel Corn (TM) was empty approximately 10 minutes after this picture was taken

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