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Vancouver, BC
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Coquitlam, BC
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Posted - 02/07/2012 : 08:38 AM
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Good share WeedWhacker!
Never been to the Bridge, but I've seen the other side of the range from Toba Valley - those icefields are amazing.
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Fast hikin, carrot chompin, always grinnin, gear scatterin recipient of the Theta Lake manouver
Burnaby
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Posted - 02/07/2012 : 1:56 PM
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Where is the hut?
I'm planning to come in over Salal Creek. |
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Vancouver, BC
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Posted - 02/07/2012 : 2:19 PM
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map 92J/13 (Stanley Smith glacier)
grid 600 305
The hut is located about midpoint on the obvious nunatuk (about 2 km x 0.5 km) in the middle of the Bridge glacier.
The photo of the guy checking the weather instrument looked like it was taken from the hut. The hut was built by Environment canada in the late sixties for glaciology studies (like the ones at Sentinel bay on Garibaldi lake). I haven't been back there since about 1980.
I tried to get to it once from Salal creek but we were chased off by a huge black bear with cub.
Sandy: I have planned to do that traverse numerous times, but something always gets in the way. Maybe someday. |
Edited by - weedWhacker on 02/07/2012 3:11 PM |
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Happy go lucky, plaid wearin, postholin, safeway gaitor sportin, old-school film shootin, giver of many regards
Abbotsford, B.C.
Canada
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Posted - 02/07/2012 : 4:55 PM
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Beautiful Weedwhacker.
That Bridge Glacier is one awesome stretch of ice.
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Vancouver, BC
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Posted - 02/07/2012 : 5:23 PM
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The map above is only the bottom corner of map 92J/13. The entire map is six times larger (30 km x 20 km) and the whole thing is a tangled river of glaciers flowing off the icecap. I could spend the rest of my years exploring it and never see it all.
The two photos above show only about 1/4 of the bridge glacier and only a microscopic bit of the whole complex. |
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Happy go lucky, plaid wearin, postholin, safeway gaitor sportin, old-school film shootin, giver of many regards
Abbotsford, B.C.
Canada
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Posted - 02/07/2012 : 5:57 PM
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Interesting... the timing of your photo. I was up in the Goldbridge - Bralorne - Lillooet Area at work for most of the 1981 - 1985 period, but never got up to see the glacier.
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Sardonic sandbagging scoundrel, Cascade Climbers lobotomized spraymeister, space blanket flyer, new millennium vulgarian betaboy and friend to all squids
Climbing, a mountain
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Posted - 02/07/2012 : 6:27 PM
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Snout of the Bridge, 1992
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Vancouver, BC
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Posted - 02/07/2012 : 6:58 PM
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| Karvitk: I was doing glaciology for a few years back then, so all I ever saw was snow and ice for two solid years. I was sick and tired of white stuff after that. |
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Posted - 02/07/2012 : 11:20 PM
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Unless I'm mistaken the current Google Earth view of the Bridge Glacier Nunatak shows that the glacier has retreated so far the nunatak is no longer surrounded by ice.
I skied past it one time on the way out from visiting Bridge Peak. It passed like an island off to our left as we glided down the glacier.
weedWhacker, did you work with Dan Moore? |
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Vancouver, BC
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Posted - 02/07/2012 : 11:55 PM
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SgRant: No, I never knew him. Back in the day, it was crews of two people each year and they usually only lasted one season. People from one crew never met or knew people from previous seasons - I was unusual, lasting for two years. Sadly, I don't think those kinds of jobs exist anymore.
Interesting but predictable that the glacier has receded so far. It used to take about an hour to hike from the hut across the glacier by the fastest route - and we had uBishops fitness levels.
For those struggling with google maps, enter the following lat / long:
50 48.30N, 123 34W
Google maps doesn't show much though - the top 3/4 of the nunatuk is hidden by clouds.
I think there is still ice all the way around the part we can see though. It is difficult to see because google maps shows the ice in grey. I assumed anything with crevasses was icefield. |
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Vancouver, BC
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Posted - 02/08/2012 : 10:30 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Dru
Snout of the Bridge, 1992
Photos from July 1980
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