Benjamin J Wilcock

They say a picture is worth and thousand words

It’s my second day on the glacier now so about three days into the trip. Today we hiked all the way back to the snow line, about 1400 m. We wanted to try and get some clean snow samples with no algae. Unfortunately when we arrived the area was covered in red snow, so this task was close to impossible. Also not being roped up at this point we wanted to avoid going into the snow area too deep. We decided to take a few samples of the red snow along the snow ice boundary.

They say a picture is worth and thousand words so we also set up a time-lapse camera looking at the snow line close to a weather station on Storglaciären.

Eventually the weather started clearing and the sun began to peak through the clouds, so we decided to break and enjoy our lunch at the glacier weather station. Having any opportunity to just sit and stare at this impressive site is welcome; also a chance to have a hot cup of coffee is great.  We secured the time laps camera and tripod as much as possible and hoped it would be in the same place when we go back to pick up the camera before we leave.