Monday, August 16, 2010

Glacier fight!!







Haha!
"Eighty twooooo"

People born before eighty four are old.












Doesn't she look like a ski instructor?
The mound of snow was at the bottom of the Athabasca glacier. There were a bunch of people walking all over it and taking pictures and being tourists. While this was going on some yellow clad glacier dudes were giving a tour to people who had money farther up the glacier. By the time they were headed down again, the guy behind Annie, in the picture above, was the last one on the snow. When the tour guide in the yellow suit noticed that there was someone on the snow this is what he said, "GET OFF THE SNOW! GET OFF THE SNOW! GET OFF THE SNOW! GET OOOFFF! OOOFFF! GET OFF! GET OFF! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! GET OFF THE SNOW! GET OFF THE SNOW! GET OFF THE SNOW! GET OFF! GET OFF! NOW! NOOOOOOW! NOOOOW! GET OFF! OOOOOOOOFFF! NOW! NOW! NOW! GET OFF! GET OFF THE SNOW! GET OFF THE SNOW! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" And so on for a good minute. Apparently it's dangerous. Who knew?
<-- This is a picture of a crack between the ice and the snow. A dead giveaway that we should not have been walking on it.













I was here in '96 and this part of the glacier didn't look anything like it does today. On account of the filth it's melting slower and looks cooler than the other dirty ice of the main glacier. Annie was too scared after hearing that guy being yelled at, so she came nowhere near it.




Hence the selfies.



















All I needed was a cup and some rye.

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