Fox Glacier

Trip Start Jun 07, 2008
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Trip End Apr 05, 2009


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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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After stopping for the night at Makarora, we continued our journey towards the Fox Glacier. The Haast Highway, between Makarora and Haast, is a spectacular and scenic road, so we made frequent stops for sightseeing and for some treks of the road. After Haast the scenary changed from mountain to coast, the dramatic scenary of the West coastline was also spectacular and hence we had to make many more stops and some more trekking. It was a really nice journey, and in the end it took us all day to get to the Fox Glacier, we barelly had time to find a caravan park before night, and didn't visit the glacier until the next day. Haast Pass
Haast Pass


The next morning we went to see the Fox Glacier, we first went for a 1 hour and a half walk to a lookout with great views over the lower icefall. After we went for a walk in the glacier valley and right next to the glacier's terminal face. The terminal face is quite unstable so we couldn't get any closer than about 50m, but it was still quite impressive, and cold! While walking around we saw people doing guided walk on top of the glacier (you can't go without a guide), we haven't thought about it before, but it looked very interesting, so we decided we would do that at the Franz-Josef Glacier. Around lunch time we left for Franz-Josef, it's not very far, so we still had time to do some sightseeing that same day.

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Depois de passarmos a noite em Makarora, continuámos a nossa viagem em direcção ao Glaciar Fox. A estrada de Haast, entre Makarora e Haast, é espectacular pelo que fizémos paragens frequentes para ver as vistas e para fazermos algumas caminhadas. Depois de Haast o cenário mudou de motanha para costa, a dramática paisagem da costa Oeste era também espectacular e acabamos por parar mais um monte de vezes para mais vistas e mais caminhadas. A viagem acabou por nos levar todo o dia, mas foi bastante agradavél, chegámos ao Glaciar Fox já ao anoitecer e mal tivémos tempo de encontrar um parque de caravanas. Fox Glacier
Fox Glacier


Na manhã seguinte fomos visitar o glaciar, primeiro fizémos uma caminhada de cerca de hora e meia até a um miradouro donde se tem excelentes vistas sobre a parte mais baixa do glaciar. A seguir fizémos mais uma caminhada, desta vez até à face terminal (onde o glaciar acaba) do glaciar. A face terminal é bastante instável pelo que não nos podemos aproximar mais do que uns 50m, mas ainda assim foi bastante impressionate, e frio! Duarante as nossas caminhadas perto do glaciar vimos gente a fazer caminhadas guiadas no glaciar (não se pode ir sem guia), não tinhamos pensado nisso mas pareceu-nos bastante interessante, pelo que decidimos fazer o mesmo mas no Glaciar Franz-Josef, umas dezenas de km mais a norte. Por volta da hora do almoço arrancámos para Franz-Josef, como não é muito longe ainda tivémos tempo de ir ver as vistas no mesmo dia.

CZ:
Cestou k ledovci Fox Glacier (po Haast Highway) jsme casto staveli a kochali se. Projeli jsme Haastem a hory vystridalo more, nedalo se nic delat a museli jsme vyrazit na par prochazek. Cesta nam tim padem trvala cely den a jen tak tak jsme si jeste stihli najit nocleh. Na samotny ledovec jsme se vypravili az druhy den rano. Fox Glacier
Fox Glacier
Hned rano jsme vyrazili do oblasti ledovce a po prochazce, ktera trvala asi 1,5 hod, se nam otevrel krasny vyhled na Fox Glacier. Pak jsme se vydali do samotneho udoli a dosli az k ledovci, ale radsi jsme se drzeli dal, svitilo slunicko, ledovec tal a kameny, co nabral cestou, se odloupavaly a padaly do reky a udoli, nebezpecna oblast! Na samotnem ledovci jsme zaznamenali turisty s horskymi vudci, a tak jsme se rozhodli absolvovat ten samy vystup, ale na ledovci Franz-Josef Glacier, kam jsme se vydali hned potom. Cestou jsme se zase kochali. :-)

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