Glacier Walk/Hike

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March 4th 2007

Published: March 4th 2007

Friends and family: I hope that spring weather has finally arrived. I have kept my eye on U.S./Midwest weather and it sounds as if it has not been the best. Hopefully the spring will bring warmth and sunshine to you all! I am alive and kicking and am in love with my life. I greatly appreciate all of you who have contacted me and offered support and condolences over the past few weeks. Please kn... Read Full Entry

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Resting on the Glacier

Impassible Ice

Climbing through the Cracks

Emerging from the Cracks

Trapped in a Crevasse

Point of No Return

This is the highest elevation that we could hike to on the glacier. Behind me you will see some spire like glacial formations. Although they may not look like it, they are over 5 stories tall. It is absolutely impassible past the point at which I am at. Professional climbers with high tech equipment cannot traverse further up the glacier. The spires are too tall, moving too quickly (crazy to think that ice is moving...), and the crevasses around them are absolutely treacherous.

King of the Glacier

Hiking Down from the Glacier

Waterfall and Green Lake

20th March 2007

Kellen Frank
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Ring
How do you know how big an NBA Champ ring is?? Are you still claiming to have met Michael J?

20th March 2007

Aunt Laura
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Have a blast. It'll be over too soon. Looks gorgeous. Love you so much.

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