Another beautiful day. Tommy, Rob and myself headed out to climb a 500+ m unnamed peak to the North of Hodges that we had been wanting to go up for quite a while now.

We headed up to Deadmans and then swapped to snow shoes heading up Boulder Pass and round the back of the peak to get to the top up a scree slope. In the picture above one of the boulders in Boulder Pass is in the middle of one of the many lakes in the area.

What a stunning viewpoint it was. Views of Nordenskol, Neumayer and Lyell Glaciers, out to sea and base all from this peak. As we had lunch and surveyed the Thatcher Peninsula a snow petrel glided effortlessly around the peak. Unfortunately Tommy strained a groin muscle somehow so we weren’t able to continue to Hodges and back home by a different route.

I stopped in to chat with the climbers on Pelagic Australis (they just did the Shackleton Traverse) as they were washing all their gear at the jetty and had a piece of birthday cake after looking around the boat. It is a well put together expedition yacht as one would expect as it was purpose built for high latitudes sailing. Back in time for a tasty Saturday night dinner and a late night at the bar with the Pelagic crew who came round for after dinner drinks.