Scott - Nov 4, 2015 12:21 am - Hasn't voted
Nice findNice find. USGS says that it was taken in 1905, one of the least snowy years on record. If you find any more, please let me know. I would like to include them in the article.
It would be really awesome to have a photo for each year on the mountain, taken about the same date, but alas old photographs are so hard to find.
Sam Dunford - Jan 7, 2016 1:22 pm - Hasn't voted
Contradiction?This appears to contradict the idea of a surface glacier until the 1930's, unless the oddly shaped stuff in the middle of the snowfield is glacial ice, or the glacier is on the area of the headwall that is obscured by the talus slope.
Scott - Jan 7, 2016 3:40 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Contradiction?Yes, that's what I was thinking too. When you zoom in, there may be a possible tiny crevasse on the right side of the icefield and possibly the "oddly shaped stuff" is glacial ice. Too bad this photo was taken from afar (the Timp Basin). I guess it is also possible, like in 1994, crevasses may only be visible periodically? In recent times, the 1994 report is the only report I have seen that mentions one.
I would like to know more about the 1905 photo if you happen to ever dig anything up on it.
Also, although reports of the old annual Timp hikes starting in 1912 say that the glacier/snowfield was smallest in 1934 for those particular hikes (at least early on), this 1905 photo seems to blow all those photos away when it comes to the small size of the glacier/snowfield.
Sam Dunford - Jan 13, 2016 3:38 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Contradiction?There also appear to be crevasses in the ice on the north face, at the site of what was very likely another Little Ice Age glacier.
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