The weather broke some today for the trip to the Grand Tetons. It was cloudy for most of the trip through Yellowstone, but as I came down the slope towards Jackson Lake, the clouds began to break a little and the first sight of the Tetons was magnificent. This is what movie directors refer to as a scenic climax. On a scale of 1 to 10 the Tetons rate a 50.
The Teton topography illustrates the forces that formed them, with the flat valley of Jackson Hole meeting the mountains right at the slope break where the fault is that caused the uplift of the mountains and down-dropping of the basin. The imprint of the glaciers that carved the Tetons is unmistakable, from the cirques to the U-shaped valleys to the moraines the glaciers left behind.
All in all, today was a very good day!
The Teton topography illustrates the forces that formed them, with the flat valley of Jackson Hole meeting the mountains right at the slope break where the fault is that caused the uplift of the mountains and down-dropping of the basin. The imprint of the glaciers that carved the Tetons is unmistakable, from the cirques to the U-shaped valleys to the moraines the glaciers left behind.
All in all, today was a very good day!
1 comment:
And no pictures with the lens cap on. What a triumph. :-)
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