Icy Reflection of Emmons' North Face

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$Icy Reflection of Emmons\' North Face$

In a no-name lake at Upper Atwood Basin. Picture taken on the way down from North Emmons, 10/29/08 3 pm.

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Voted 10/10

goes with the season, in addition to being a great shot.
Happy climbing,
Marc

Posted Oct 31, 2008 3:55 pm


	Dmitry Pruss	Re: Your new Profile Image
	Hasn't voted	Thanks Marc! It's always a great pleasure to anticipate the coming season ... even when it stubbornly refuses to come, as it happens with winter season 2008-2009!
		Posted Oct 31, 2008 5:15 pm

Lake

Voted 10/10

That's what I wanted: tarn and trees (no trees on the opposite slope though:))

Posted Dec 22, 2008 4:51 pm


	Dmitry Pruss	Re: Lake
	Hasn't voted	The opposite slope faces North, Yatsek. Of course it would be too cold for the trees. The summit is over 4,000 m high anyway, you'd need to move it to the tropics to have any trees there :)
		Posted Dec 23, 2008 3:50 pm


	yatsek	Re: Lake
	Voted 10/10	OK where've the bushes or at least grasses gone? Is it easier for trees to take roots in this rock? Hard quarzite maybe?
		Posted Dec 23, 2008 3:55 pm


	Dmitry Pruss	It isn't the rock
	Hasn't voted	the trees colonize quartzites perfectly well at lower altitudes. No, it is the climate, too long winter, too frozen soils for the trees to thrive.
		Posted Dec 23, 2008 4:46 pm


	yatsek	Re: It isn't the rock
	Voted 10/10	Misunderstood. I was asking if it's possible that the rock makes it easier for trees and pretty hard for smaller plants with shorter roots to grow.
		Posted Dec 23, 2008 5:36 pm