Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
The weather was too unsettled to go anywhere, so we stayed in the camp area.
Since the glacier hike on the 15th went so smoothly, we thought we'd hike over the glaciers to The Spit. On a nice day it would have worked, but up on the glacier it was white-out. We weren't that concerned about freezing (it wasn't very cold) or getting lost (it's a small island), but it was way too easy to fall off of or into something with this poor visibility. So we wrote it off. | |
By now we had noticed that the south side of the island took the pounding from waves, so we decided to move a Zodiac to the north shore at Pebble Beach. As radio man, I stayed behind while the others took a Zodiac to the Spit, lugged it across, then brought it around to Pebble Beach. It was a wet trip for them, but it turned out to be an excellent move.
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