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Believe it or not, we're still on a trail.Dying light as we walk back to the truck - note Trevor's old Ford and my mid set up right on the road.Three days later this ice cave was surrounded by only ice - the snow melted quickly!The decommissioned road continues on past the washout.The spectacular scenery along the Valenciennes River FSR.Climbing the large moraine to get above slabs on our left. This was a good move and got us onto easier snow covered terrain near two small tarns.Amazing fossil imprints in the rock.The road ends officially here! Actually, some ATV's apparently do make it across.Not obvious in the photo, but the trail up the first avy path is fairly distinct.Too many waterfalls to count as we slowly contour high on climber's right towards the distant glacier.The trail is faint but clear. Note the cliffs ahead?Hiking alongside the largest of the tarns.Finally we break tree line and are at the same height as the ice fall - the Lyell Hut is high above usThis spectacular waterfall is called, "Cerberus Falls" and plunges hundreds of meters into Icefall Canyon.Ben takes photos as we traverse a rock rib along the small tarns which are out of sight to the right here.As we break treeline the route becomes a bit more scrambly and exposed down to our left. You wouldn't want a lot of snow or ice on this traverse!The Lyell Hut is somewhere on that shoulder of rock - you can just barely spot it now.More waterfalls.This log was key in crossing the raging washout near the end of the drivable road.
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