"Ice Climbing on Franz Josef" Marcmsm's photos around Franz Josef, New Zealand (n z franz josef)
Preview of Marcmsm's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/marcmsm/s.e._asia._06/1181436480/tpod.html This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Franz Josef, New Zealand Entry Title: "Ice Climbing on Franz Josef" Entry: "We all checked into the Glow worm hostel in Franz josef township which was really nice.. free soup and all in the evening.. nice one.. We booked on to do an ice climbing day on the glacier at Franz josef.. This kind of killed two birds with one stone as you get to walk and see a lot of the glacier and you also get to do a load of ice climbing... i.e they give you all the special boots and clothes steel crampons for the boots so you can grip and walk on the ice and climb and most importantly kick ass ice axes for climbing... We had to start off real early in the morning and it was raining too which sucked this glacier looks really similiar to the fox glacier but it is more accessible. It takes a few minutes to get used to walking in the special gear they give you but it was a lot of fun.. Took over an hour of walking to get to some of the ice cliffs that we were going to climb... its not like rock climbing at all but it was great fun.. there were only 12 of us on the trip and the weather cleared up too which was fantastic...when you are walking on the glacier you have to walk through all these caverns, caves and raven's.. its hard work.. you make very little progress distance wise.. We did 6 differnt climbs on the ice cliffs and you really have to drive the ice axes into the ice walls for grip but its pretty amazing when u are just hanging there 25 metres up holding on tojust one ice axe... granted you are roped up too but thats beside the point. It was back then to the hostel for the evening and we all piled into the hot tub with a load of beers.. the hot tub was outside and kinda funny when ur sitting there in warm water and its -5 degrees outside.. From there it was dinner and out to the Blue ice bar to meet up with the rest of the climbers from the trip. Following morning dave dimitri and louise headed on north .. and i was going south again.. i ran into Tam and Cat who were in the Catlins and Queenstown same time as me too so i went along to peters lake with them before moving on south again heading for Haast pass and Wanaka.." Read and see more at: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/marcmsm/s.e._asia._06/1181436480/tpod.html Photos from this trip: 1. "Dave me and dimitri" 2. "Franz Josef" 3. "Franz josef" 4. "Glacier face" 5. "Grabbing on with me ice axe" 6. "Made it" 7. "Me on glacier" 8. "Path through the glacier" 9. "Up on the glacier" See this TripWow and more at http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com/tripwow/ta-00e5-f49a-31ba?ytv4=1
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