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Exploring a Glacier Ice Cave
Stepping into a world of ice - A Diary
This blog isn’t going to be like my normal blogs where I go into detail about the hike and how you can do it too. The reason being, we want to keep this place a hidden gem so that it doesn’t become another big tourist attraction. Accessing this ice cave is not safe, and by spoiling the locations like these, it can lead to a greater influx of people who can be put in serious danger or end up destroying the cave. So, I hope you sit back and simply enjoy the photos. If you do want to explore this ice cave, you will need to do your own research on finding it and know how to be safe doing it.
trekking to the ice cave
Getting to the ice cave took us a bit of time, just under 3 hours; 2 hours and 50 minutes to be exact as we trekked 8 kilometers. It was a relatively easy hike at this time of year, in fact, it was one of the easiest hikes I’ve completed in the last few years. There was very little elevation gain (194m gain and 145m descent) and the majority of the trail was flat. But, the danger was not knowing what was below you as you were crossing over many streams and small lakes that were completely frozen and covered in snow.
Most of the trek was on hard packed snow and very easy. It wasn’t until the end where the trail was pure ice and putting on microspikes or crampons was necessary.
the Details
Looking closer at the ice below us during the trek, and all around in the ice cave, it was incredibly fascinating. The patters of the lines, the deep deep blues, the trapped air bubbles, seriously so cool. I could stand in one spot and point my camera in several directions zoomed all the way in and get so many different perspectives and see different things.
the ICE Cave
The cave was impressive! The deeper inside the cave you went the deeper and more vibrant the blue got. The ice was super clear too.
