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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Sep 29, 2015 - 10:35pm PT
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^^^ lol
California wants to pipe it. They are already buying up watershed property.
And a California firm is moving its operations there.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Sep 29, 2015 - 10:40pm PT
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Um, Ducky....
Why would they masquerade as crankloons?
Lots of better stuff to masquerade as...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 29, 2015 - 10:47pm PT
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Isn't Reilly an RSL speaker?
Frikken Reds!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2015 - 07:21am PT
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What do you suppose the lines crossing the fall line on the left are from? Is it windy there? Wind driven rockfall? What falls naturally across a slope rather than down it? Wind+reduced gravity=something traversing a slope?
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2015 - 07:26am PT
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Most likely.
BTM
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Sep 30, 2015 - 07:29am PT
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Tracks.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Sep 30, 2015 - 07:30am PT
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Those are staged migratory trails built by crankloons to mimick caveman and trick gross materialistic scientist into voting for criminal Hillary types..Stupid martians...
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Sep 30, 2015 - 07:34am PT
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Kiwi tracks. They heard there were sheep on Mars.
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Ken
Trad climber
Arroyo Grande
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Sep 30, 2015 - 07:35am PT
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Ablation zone above water streaks
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2015 - 07:43am PT
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Ablation zone or ablation area refers to the low-altitude area of a glacier or ice sheet below firn with a net loss in ice mass due to melting, sublimation, evaporation, ice calving, aeolian processes like blowing snow, avalanche, and any other ablation. The equilibrium line altitude (ELA) or snow line separates the ablation zone from the higher-altitude accumulation zone. The ablation zone often contains meltwater features such as supraglacial lakes, englacial streams, and subglacial lakes. The seasonally melting glacier deposits much sediment at its fringes in the ablation area. Ablation constitutes a key part of the glacier mass balance.
The amount of snow and ice gained in the accumulation zone and the amount of snow and ice lost in the ablation zone determine glacier mass balance. Often mass balance measurements are made in the ablation zone using snow stakes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablation_zone
Sounds reasonable, but I'm obviously no geologist.
Where's Weschrist?
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Sep 30, 2015 - 08:10am PT
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Dust devils leave tracks on Mars. I think maybe dust devils are forming in the turbulence on the lee side of that hill and making a bunch of tracks in that one area.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2015 - 08:21am PT
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Dust devils leave tracks on Mars. I think maybe dust devils are forming in the turbulence on the lee side of that hill and making a bunch of tracks in that one area.
Hadn't considered that one, but it makes sense.
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Grippa
Trad climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Sep 30, 2015 - 02:15pm PT
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They're thin skinned depositional laminae that contain briny evaporites (salty minerals). The real question is why do they seem to propagate specifically from these horizons? Is it ground water I think so.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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^^^^ Mt Hood in about 60 years?
DMT
Mt Hood today:
Unless it starts snowing soon, the wait will be pretty short.
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sowr
Trad climber
CA
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Pyro thanks for paging me. Could have helped you out, but I hardly ever visit Supertopo, perhaps my ears were burning....
It's not a surprise that there's liquid water on Mars, its get above freezing in the summer at the equator, plus I bet those crater walls are sun traps. Our view of Mars has gone from moon-like to dry to lots of water everywhere, 99.999% of it is frozen solid underneath a layer of Martian dust. Lots of glaciers there, and lots of jagged glacier carved mountain ranges.
There are NASA plans to send people, but no money so we'll see how far that goes. JPL has a mission next year (InSight - launch March 2016), it's a stationary lander to detect Marsquakes. M2020 is currently being built at JPL, it's another big rover to, among other things, cache soil for subsequent sample return.
I honestly think I'm going to be dead before I see people there.
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