Best of Luke & Anne - Glacier Hike

It's three days after Christmas and we're finally done cleaning our apartment. We haven't really had anything else to do since it's been raining nonstop for the last week (which sped up the cleanup by washing all the chocolate and ice cream off the balcony). Now let's switch gears to something interesting, like us climbing up a giant f*cking glacier.

First off, they kitted us out in all sorts of gnarly gear: boots, jackets, crampons, and the gnarliest of them all, fanny packs.

We were also provided with small sized ice picks which made Luke look like the Alton Giant, Robert Wadlow. Luke is on the left.

We hiked out along the old floor of the glacier, up piles of morraine, and then eventually got onto the icy part. The glacier has been retreating rapidly over the years. Some say it's because of global warming, others say it's because of a broken heart after Al Gore lost the 2000 election.

Adam spent most of his time waiting for Lara because he got scared when he was all by himself.


Not plummeting to your death is easy-peasy on a glacier - just hold onto this rope!


Oh haaay, just climbin' through an ice cave, go Cowboys!


The lower portion of the glacier is covered in dirt and morraine and is known to professional climbers as the "Dirty Souff."


Once Lara realized that the rest of us had cameras she started practicing her sexy glacial crevasse pose.


Luke may or may not have pooped himself during the vertical portion of the climb.


Adam couldn't help but be an extreme badass.


It was just like Christmas in Minnesota, minus the being drunk part.

The icing (pun intended!) on the cake of this wonderful experience was that our guide was Toby from The Office:

The lovable, forever down-trodden Toby laments to the hiking party about his failed marriage.

It was an exhausting day, but we managed to rally and make it out that evening for the old-timey themed glacier bar crawl.

Jager Bombs!