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johntp
Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 24, 2018 - 07:43pm PT
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Took this from the deck of the Eiger rail terminus. What is it?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 24, 2018 - 08:13pm PT
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That’s a glacier. They don’t have those in California any longer. 😉
OK, it is the Jungfrau.
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johntp
Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 24, 2018 - 09:55pm PT
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Fuccking wise ass post Reilly. What wrong did I do to you to get your BS responses?
Edit: yeah, John M. I do need to lighten up. Thanks for the catch and sanity check.
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John M
climber
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Sep 24, 2018 - 10:01pm PT
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Ease up John, thats just Reilly's sense of humor.
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DonC
climber
CA
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Sep 24, 2018 - 10:03pm PT
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That’s a glacier. They don’t have those in California any longer.
Don't want to take John's post off the rail to far, but actually, there are still a few small glaciers in California...in the Sierra and on Shasta. Around 50+ in the Sierra, although one thesis in 2008 identified has many as 117, which I think is high. There are seven on Shasta. They are retreating for sure, but a few are hanging in there.
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johntp
Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 25, 2018 - 12:35am PT
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They are retreating for sure, but a few are hanging in there.
Does the Ice Nine gully on Mendel still exist?
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Stewart Johnson
Mountain climber
lake forest
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Sep 25, 2018 - 05:15am PT
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No ice in Sierra couloirs
You were born too late
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Sep 25, 2018 - 12:29pm PT
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I climbed the Rottal Ridge. Fun mixed climbing including a fixed ship rope. The Rottal Hut is in a spectacular position
Shasta's glaciers are advancing. Woot!!!
"In 2002, scientists made the first detailed survey of Mount Shasta's glaciers in 50 years. They found that seven of the glaciers have grown over the period 1951-2002, with the Hotlum and Wintun Glaciers nearly doubling, the Bolam Glacier increasing by half, and the Whitney and Konwakiton Glaciers growing by a third.[7] The study concluded that though there has been a two to three degree Celsius temperature rise in the region, there has also been a corresponding increase in the amount of snowfall. Increased temperatures have tapped Pacific Ocean moisture, leading to snowfalls that supply the accumulation zone of the glacier with 40 percent more snowfall than is melted in the ablation zone. Over the past 50 years, the glacier has actually expanded 30 percent, which is the opposite of what is being observed in most areas of the world. "
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