Finally Knut and I went out to try a plan we made during the glacier course a couple weeks ago. With some friends from our class we went to Tufte glacier, Jostedalen the 8th of october for a bluebird day of glacier travel. With the goal of reaching Steinmannen, not far from the glacier plateau, and getting experience in leading, we all left around 6 in the morning for Jostedalen. Looking at the weather forecast it did not seam as the best plan combining icy roads with slippery summer wheels the next day.
We arrived at Bergset with no incidents ready to walk up the hill to the glacier base impatient to see how much snow there were and if the crevasses were covered or not. The glacier was all white, but we could see the concave immersions of the cracks. After an hour of walking we reached the glacier icefalls and roped up. There were around 50-60cm of new snow which made the travel more difficult and time consuming then expected. The weak snow bridges made it more exciting too and a few of us fell through several times. We turned around probably half way up slightly prior to 2pm, which were our planed time for descent. There were a crust layer at base, which gradually ceased at around 900m. Above we defiantly missed our skis.. With the good feeling of an approaching winter, we were back down at the car 4.30.
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| Lunchbreak at the way back down |
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| Wondering why I did not bring my skis |
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