Burnie Glacier Chalet, Smithers BC
Day 4 of our 7 day guided trip to Burnie Glacier Chalet with Tom Wolfe of Sawback Adventures took us to Loft Glacier.
Day 1 March 23 || Day 2 March 24 || Day 3 March 25 || Day 4 March 26 || Day 5 March 27 || Day 6 March 28
There are four massive serac’ed blue-ice glaciers close to the Chalet (Burnie, Loft, Sandpiper, Telkwa) and two smaller sub-glaciers, Outer and Middle Solitaire.
Today managed to get to Loft Peak in plenty of time to take in the view of the Shakespeare group to its south and the massive broken Sandpiper. Loft’s N face provided us creamy spring snow followed by a well timed corn cycle down Ptarmigan slope to finish through the trees and the challenging Ptarmigan Surprise!
1300m climbing in 6:20hrs.
Another finished breakfast
Helping out with dishes
Heading up to Loft Glacier
Dwarfed by Hut Peak
Loft glacier and hiding from the intense March sun
Andy takes in the Howson range.
Last skin up to the peak. Didn’t need ski crampons here.
Alpine Beer
Tom getting all Shakespearean
Chilling on Loft Peak at 2165m
Tom skiing down Loft
Our tracks off Loft
Lee skiing down Loft
Glade skiing down Loft
Lance skiing down Loft
Georg skiing down Loft
Daniel skiing down Loft
Paul skiing down Loft
The Ptarmigen Surpise. Not always this sketchy
Skinning along the swamp, Loft peak now far above
Creeks are getting sketchy!
Nice skin through the trees back to the beer, er I mean chalet.
Chalet at night.
