Vertical Talus "Ripples/Waves" near Wetterhorn?

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Re: Vertical Talus "Ripples/Waves" near Wetterhorn?

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Re: Vertical Talus "Ripples/Waves" near Wetterhorn?

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XterraRob wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:46 pm WOW
That one is quite impressive! Where is it?
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And then there's Mt. Mestas, along La Veta Pass. The entire mountain is a glacial ice ball kept frozen by carbon dioxide.

https://spanishpeakscountry.com/mt-mestas/
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k_fergie wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:53 pm That one is quite impressive! Where is it?
Gilpin Peak next to Sneffels.
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Re: Vertical Talus "Ripples/Waves" near Wetterhorn?

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For those here that want to dig in a bit deeper I found a thesis that studied Mt. Mestas and the area around Blanca specifically and found that many of the rock glaciers in the area are active and moving!

https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/83862

In addition, that paper mentions an older (1907) paper about a study of Glaciers around Blanca peak. The author in that study found active glaciers on Blanca that my still exist today.
"The Blanca glaciers lie snugly under the steep north face of Blanca
Peak ...The width of the glacier is about 800 feet,
and its greatest length is about 1,000 feet, although the ice probably
extends a considerable distance farther beneath the terminal moraine.
The glacier lies in a pocket on the mountain side, and the ice is prob
ably quite thick. A prospecting tunnel, starting in the moraine
below the edge of the visible ice, went horizontally in the clear ice
for a distance of 115 feet without reaching rock, which, taking into
account the slope of the surface, demonstrates a vertical thickness of
over 80 feet."
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/p ... 086/621366
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Re: Vertical Talus "Ripples/Waves" near Wetterhorn?

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There is some really good ones on West Apostle. When I climbed it I thought this rock sure looks like melted chocolate. I don't have a good photo, but the satellite views are pretty cool.

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