Steindalsbreen Glacier Hike Part 2

After lunch it was time to head back down and warm up! You can see the wide open valley we walked through and in the third and fourth photo the closer mountainy looking thing is the last moraine we had to climb up! Then the 8th photo is an older lateral moraine that was farther down the valley (it was much smaller so way easier to go up and over).

At our first break of the walk we hadn’t seen anyone else (we were the only car in the parking lot when we left) and I asked Raymond how many people he thinks we will see. He guessed one other group (which at the next break we did see two people coming up behind us) and a I thought I guessed high at 8. We ended up seeing 13 people (7 groups - 2 were single people)! That is a lot more than I expected for this longer, more difficult hike on a day where the weather is not amazing!

It was a really nice walk! On the way back it was still cloudy, but they had lifted so we could see the other mountains which was nice. There may be duplicate photos in this and the prior post as I’m too tired right now to go through and check. It was gorgeous! Though I am exhausted! Last night I told Raymond that we will do this hike today and then tomorrow is a rest day!! Don’t let me be like oh, let’s do this hard 8km straight uphill hike! Say no! We need an easy day! And right now I’m like yeah, a day of exploring easy things will be nice. I knew the trip was backloaded with the harder hikes, but not much I could do about that as this is where the bigger mountains are. So easy day tomorrow!

Oh and the three photos after the last river pic are from the drive to camp and the rest are from camp. We got here and had to get water/empty water and we pulled up and were both like I think we were here last time to get water? I didn’t think it was this exact place, I thought it just looked an awful lot like the other place, but then looked on the map and was like no, this is the same place. So that was odd. But we are staying the night this time (last time we just got water). There were lots of birds out in the water including a bunch of grey herons when we got here! But this place is very popular! So many other people parked for the night!Read more