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| Bill Reed | Nice album Bob! | |
Voted 10/10 | Some great shots of a great place! Thanks for sharing them. | |
| Posted Dec 19, 2008 2:43 pm | ||
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| Bob Sihler | Re: Nice album Bob! | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks, Bill! The other day, I wanted to copy some of my Wyoming SP photos to my computer and then to another site, and it was a tedious job finding the ones I wanted. Therefore, I got the idea of doing away with my bigger Wyoming and Montana albums and instead making smaller ones based on specific areas and ranges, so I'll be making several such albums in the next week or so. Thanks again for looking! | |
| Posted Dec 19, 2008 9:17 pm | ||
| saintgrizzly | Information you might find interesting... | |
Voted 10/10 | Here's a link to current glaciation infomation in the U.S. Lower 48. Wyoming and Montana, of course, top the Rockies in area (actually, have more square kilometers of glaciers than any other state except Washington, which is in a class by itself). Interesting that the Wyoming glacier total is less than 5 square kilometers more than that of Montana—although not all glaciers in those states are in the Wind River Range or GNP. I believe that Dinwoody Glacier (Wind Rivers) is currently the largest U.S. Rocky Mountain glacier, but have been unable to locate an accurate glacial area figure isolating a total for either the Winds or GNP. The consensus (which I don't dispute) seems to be that the Winds have more glacier area than GNP, but I've never seen documented sources on such. Also, the rapid melting of GNP's glaciers has been widely discussed and researched for many years; I know the same is occurring in the Winds, but have never seen information as to the rapidity and extent of glacier disappearance from that mountain range. The elevation in the Winds is higher than in GNP, which one would assume to affect the rate of melting. Anyway, I find all this stuff fascinating.... Link to Glacier Research | |
| Posted Dec 20, 2008 1:13 pm | ||
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| Bob Sihler | Re: Information you might find interesting... | |
Hasn't voted | Interesting page, Vernon, and thanks for the link. I'm not too surprised that WY and MT are so close in glaciated area despite the much larger ones in the Winds. Outside the Winds, the true glaciers in WY are few and small-- mostly in the Tetons but a few in the Absarokas. Montana, though, has all the Beartooth glaciers, and when you put those with the Glacier ones, you have a lot of area! Plus, the Beartooths are high, wet, and cold, which may slow the melting relative to Glacier. I wonder if the drier and warmer climate around the Winds basically evens out the benefits of the higher elevations, though. In any event, it's a shame seeing the glaciers recede. I hope the heavy snows last winter helped provide at least a little "retaliation" by the glaciers. I'm a little surprised Oregon isn't above MT and WY, but I really don't know that state's mountains too well. Maybe Oregonians wouldn't be surprised at all. Happy New Year! | |
| Posted Dec 27, 2008 6:12 pm | ||
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