Day 18: Today I woke up feeling sick still and a little bit worried about my challenging day ahead of me. But I had a good breakfast and then walked down to the place that we were meeting to get ready for the glacier hike. We got geared up, which included a rain coat and pants, socks, boots, gloves and a hat and spikes to put on are boots once we got to the base of the glacier. We then drove as far as we could and then walked the rest on foot to the base of the glacier which took about 20 minutes. The hike was mainly uphill for 2 hours or so. We climbed up by steps that they go up everyday and re-cut into the glacier and some of them that are really
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