Glacier Park ChatGlacier Mountaineering Society member Ben Darce posted this 5:18 minute video on YouTube from his recent trip up to Sperry Glacier and Gunsight Mountain. Ah, spring in Glacier. Beautiful warm sun one day and possible a blizzard the next. But the "Topsiders" apparently enjoyed sunshine.
Definitely not something we all might try but it definitely gets the juices flowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8UIfparrnY
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Re: Sperry Topsiders
Incredible accomplishment and the video is super.
That almost straight down camera angle walking those knife edge ridges gave me the Heebee Geebees!!!
Thanks for sharing Ralph!!
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Need to correct your title though
Sperry Topsiders. I wore out a many a pair of those things in my youth
That almost straight down camera angle walking those knife edge ridges gave me the Heebee Geebees!!!
Thanks for sharing Ralph!!
pete
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Need to correct your title though
Sperry Topsiders. I wore out a many a pair of those things in my youth
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Re: Sperry Topsiders
Looks like fun. At least they were able to ski some of the return trip (although the south facing snow may have been a little rough).
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I've hiked from Lake McDonald to Sperry Glacier, then to the Chalet and back down in one day (about 21 miles) and I was pretty tired afterwards. They went at least 2 more miles, up to a higher elevation -- IN SNOW! Ah, to be young and immortal again. Quite an incredible video.
I particularly enjoyed seeing them ski down "the stairs" at Comeau Pass.
I particularly enjoyed seeing them ski down "the stairs" at Comeau Pass.
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