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2019-01-18 01:01
in Flying, Nflying, Ntrips, Trips
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We were supposed to fly to Franz Joseph Glacier, but we ended up with bad weather there, so we redirected to Mt Cool instead (took a lot of advance planning to make that happen, but I had spent days looking up both locations, had all the phone numbers on hand, and the cell phones to call for go/no go decisions).
True South Flights confirmed with us that weather would allow them to pick us up again later that day, and they flew us to Mt Cook as the clouds were lifting:
True South Flights confirmed with us that weather would allow them to pick us up again later that day, and they flew us to Mt Cook as the clouds were lifting:
hard to tell that this is all a glacier with the dirt on top
we got nice crampons to walk on the ice
this is the edge of the glacier that melts into a lake, with a few visible icebergs
I tried to take a souvenir home, but somehow it didn't quite make it
that's what the glacier actually looks like at the point it breaks into icebergs
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