THE LÖTSCHEPASS GLACIER HIKE
PHOTOS BY DAVE GARDNER & MARK HUTTON .

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Its time for our youngest Scout to give a master class in front diving and stopping with an Ice Axe. 

This is a complex two stage maneuver.  First put the Axe point in the ice, this will turn you so that you'r facing up hill.  In the picture on the right he is traveling at speed down the ice.  The sharp end of the axe head has just gone in.
Ice Diving at speed.

 Once you have spun, move the Axe and put your full weight on it so it stops you..

And breaks. 
 In the picture on the left, he has completed a half turn and has started to move the Axe into the full breaking position that will bring him to a stop.

 And all without loosing his trade mark shades!

But work with the ice axes didn't last long and the proceedings soon deteriorated into a snowball fight.  The Scouts and Mark attacking the leaders who had the unfair advantage as they were defending the top of the hill.
Everyone get Nick!
The Hockenhorn in good weather.
 The Scout's "headbutt the snowball whilst wearing a helmet" defensive technique helped us to regain the advantage.

  We eventually started Hiking again. The Scouts and younger Ventures hiked with some of the leaders down into the Lotschental valley and got the train back to Kandersteg. 

To save some money, the older ventures and some leaders who had done it before trekked back to the Gasternal Valley.
 The picture above shows the Hockenhorn in all its sunny Glory.  The previous day it was too cloudy for us to see this. 

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Geoff, Andy and Ross descend to the glacier.
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