Easton Glacier seracs, June...

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Easton Glacier seracs, June...

Easton Glacier seracs, June...

Easton Glacier seracs, June 2000. So the story goes: main photo taken from camp. The clouds moved in to obscure the view of these seracs. We heard a loud crash. Something had fallen. The clouds soon parted to reveal that the dunce-cap serac had fallen away (inset).
Klenke
on Dec 24, 2003 4:16 pm
Lat/Lon: 48.77750°N / 121.8119°W
Image ID: 36704

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Derek Franzen

Derek Franzen - May 18, 2005 12:15 am - Voted 10/10

Cool...

Too bad you couldn't see it happen. Once while we were in the Coleman serac field (practicing ice climbing) we observed the ice face on Colfax calve off. The chunk of ice was at least 200' wide and perhaps 50' high. Watching it fall made my guts hurt. Of course it fell directly across the Coleman standard route (busy weekend too).



We immediately headed up-hill expecting to pull bodies out of the debris. When we arrived we found only a couple of climbers who had been underneath the face when it calved and running (with chunks of ice the size of small houses flying around them) made it through, scarred but unhurt.

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