Hey everyone, this is Bill. I don't add very often, but here i go again. This picture is from a couple of days ago. A friend of mine, Geoffrey Wyatt, and I hiked out to a waterfall that is right up next to the Mendenhall glacier. You can see the glacier in the background. The wind was whipping across the lake which made the day more chilly than normal, but in the shade of the mountain here, we were relatively sheltered from the wind. This monstrous wall of ice that is behind me was the focus of my first attempt at ice climbing and let me tell you, it is hard stuff to climb down an ice wall. I got up about 20 feet and could not find a way down, so i just turned around and slid down the ice wall to the bottom. all in all, pretty fun. Thanks Geoffrey for a cool hiking day. much needed exercise.