If anyone has any experience crossing glaciers on foot, I'd love some general comments or suggestions. I'm planning on using a dryline 8mm rope that's halfway between a full, dynamic, climbing rope and a static rapelling line. I was only planning on bringing 50 feet to minimize pack weight. And I think that's plenty for a 2-man trip. I'm using a lightweight pair of grivel crampons that have served me well in the past, and are versitile enough to be strapped on to my extreme mountaineering, trekking boots or my low-top trail runners for fast-packing. I have a basic, non-technical, lightweight ice axe by petzl that I'll be bringing as well. I wonder, though, if it would be more efficient just to bring a pair of trekking poles instead of the axe.
James Norton - Wilderness Rapport
James Norton - Wilderness Rapport