{"id":4210,"date":"2011-09-11T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2011-09-16T18:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T02:05:49","slug":"glacier-face-sightseeing-and-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/glacier-face-sightseeing-and-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"Glacier face sightseeing and skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/St-Andrews-Bay_Travel-Limits1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4273 colorbox-4210\" title=\"St Andrews Bay_Travel Limits\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/St-Andrews-Bay_Travel-Limits1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter a sunday morning lie in we headed on skis up a small outcrop to the south of the hut beach to get to the main Sorling Beach. The main beach had two huge male elephant seals and a large flock of cape petrels (I counted 90 in total). We climbed up the ridge coming off Ellerbeck peak the snow conditions were really beautiful &#8211; hard pack well frozen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/R0014841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4271 colorbox-4210\" title=\"apring shorts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/R0014841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/R00148411.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nIt was a hot climb (hence the shorts!) but we wanted to get up to the ridge right above the glacier &#8211; meanwhile the hard top was starting to get mushy so after a few photos it was time to get in a few downhill runs. We got in another 5 runs or so on a smaller section it took around 5 minutes to make the climb and 30 seconds to get down even with long sweeping turns to make it more worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/brash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4272 colorbox-4210\" title=\"brash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/brash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRob headed back to the hut while Tommy and I headed further south along the beach for the glacier face. The brash ice was piled up on the beach we found a great little lunch spot in amoungst it all unfortunately it didn&#8217;t calve with us watching. After Tommy did a few minutes of ice &#8216;climbing&#8217; on a piece of glacier wall we headed on back to the hut. That evening I think we all reflected on the events of Sept 11 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A great relaxing day of skiing and sightseeing and our last full one of holidays as monday we will be picked up by the boats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a sunday morning lie in we headed on skis up a small outcrop to the south of the hut beach to get to the main Sorling Beach. The main beach had two huge male elephant seals and a large flock of cape petrels (I counted 90 in total). We climbed up the ridge coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}