Wrangell-St. Elias adventures

I'm baaaack! On Saturday we got up at 5:30 (ew), ate breakfast and then the guy picked us up to drive us to Glennallen (the shuttle picked us up there). The shuttle to take us to Kennecott picked us up there and we drove the 4 hours there. The weather was REALLY nice..sunny and beautiful. The road was mostly dirt road and it was really bumpy. We saw a moose on the way! Awe. When we finally got there the shuttle dropped us off at the river before McCarthy. I was like "OMG" cause I saw this huge icefall and the end of Kennicott and Root glaciers. We had to take ANOTHER shuttle up to Kennecott haha. We stayed at the Kennicott Glacier Lodge overlooking the VERY dirty glaciers (our room overlooked the glaciers too). We got our stuff in the rooms and went to the place to get ready for the Root Glacier hike. We got fitted with crampons again and walked the two miles to the glacier. Stephanie started singing "we're going on a glacier hike, we're going on a glacier hike" and it stuck and we turned other things into songs haha. I was worried I wouldn't make it cause of what happened on the hike in Wisconsin but I made sure to drink plenty of water so I was ok. The weather was REALLY, really nice and warm. We saw Mt. Blackburn which everyone at the park hadn't seen for weeks. Wowww. :D Even our guide was amazed. We got to the ice, got our crampons on and started the hike! Then we started singing "we're walking on a glaaacier" haha. The Root Glacier was definitely different than Matanuska Glacier. We could walk way farther on it. It was hard to walk on though..lots of bumps. Our guide was more easygoing too. She was gonna lower us into a moulin but her crampon broke..she fixed it but didn't trust it so we couldn't go down. Ah well. We had a picnic in the middle of the glacier haha. Then the song became "we're eating on a glaaaacier" haha. I was STARVING so food was a nice thing to have. We got some glacial meltwater too..SO GOOD. All other water is gonna be blah after drinking that water. We had a sweet view of the Stairway Icefall and some ice climbers too. I think we went a mile out on the glacier

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Tomorrow we drive home. I'll post my pics when I get home at some point. I took quite a lot so I think I may post them in 2 or 3 groups