Franz Josef

It's finally glacier time. The next day we drove towards the Franz Josef glacier, where we would be staying in a beautiful little glacier township for an extra day of ice-based activities.

With some friends I went on a brave 21km hike (there and back) to the face of the glacier. The view of the snow-capped mountains was stunning and weird at the same time, since the sun was beating down on the valley and we were hiking in our t-shirts.

You can actually hike all the way up, and I mean all the way up, to the face of the glacier. 500 m away from it, we had a lunch break.

The valley on both sides, with sharp edges and clouds wrapping around it made for an interesting view.

 Aaaaand another goddamn waterfall.

Fortunately, the clouds started coming in as we were moving away from the glacier.














On our way out of the glacier area we made a stop at Lake Matheson, a glacial lake which is so clear and so clean, you can see the Fox Glacier reflected in it. (Seriously, if I turn the pictures around, I can't tell the difference.)

Other than that, thanks for over 1000 pageviews, I never expected that much interest!

 Stay tuned for some crazy stuff. :)