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johntp

Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 24, 2018 - 07:43pm PT
Took this from the deck of the Eiger rail terminus. What is it?

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 24, 2018 - 08:13pm PT
That’s a glacier. They don’t have those in California any longer. 😉

OK, it is the Jungfrau.
johntp

Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 24, 2018 - 09:55pm PT
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.
John M

climber
Sep 24, 2018 - 10:01pm PT
Ease up John, thats just Reilly's sense of humor.
DonC

climber
CA
Sep 24, 2018 - 10:03pm PT
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.
johntp

Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 25, 2018 - 12:35am PT
They are retreating for sure, but a few are hanging in there.

Does the Ice Nine gully on Mendel still exist?
Stewart Johnson

Mountain climber
lake forest
Sep 25, 2018 - 05:15am PT
No ice in Sierra couloirs

You were born too late
Flip Flop

climber
Earth Planet, Universe
Sep 25, 2018 - 12:29pm PT
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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