The Deep Snow Bank Reaches Exactly To the Edge of the Pavement. Tundra and a Rock Out-Cropping Are Seen Up the Mountain Side. View Southeast.
“ ….[between banks of old snow,] the way snow looks in early spring after a thaw. “ Snow Fields,
Beartooth Highway, MT. This photo is about 100 feet up hill from the previous. About a 1/2 mile back we had gone around a left corner and started up and along an North facing slope. What's the reasons for deep snow remaining here in mid June? Apparently local snow “drop-out” from the strong NW wind coming up the previously seen steep ski slope where it then dropped here. Somehow this is in a "back-current area shielded from the wind. The grass covered mountain incline and rock out-crop seen at left, is actually the top of a knoll called “Summit” elevation 10982 feet. The topo map shows that the road, just after the ski lift area, also maxes-out at a “bench mark”(BM = 10938ft). It just occurs to me that this somewhat lower area is a deep cut of an East-West side canyons that leads to the deeper Rock Creek Canyon. We have already seen a previous example of this. The photo shows a right curve. After the curve the road travels Southwest, then goes up a bit onto a high level area, swings to the Southeast, then enters a long right curve and starts down to the Southwest. After this curve the road is trending down and to the West along a South facing hillside. This produces more flowers. This slope appears in the 3rd and 4th next photos.
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(Photo = 106-0623 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt = 140`|w|' 10920ft)
![The Deep Snow Bank Reaches Exactly To the Edge of the Pavement. Tundra and a Rock Out-Cropping Are Seen Up the Mountain Side. View Southeast. “ ….[between banks of old snow,] the way snow looks in early spring after a thaw. “ Snow Fields, Beartooth Highway, MT. This photo is about 100 feet up hill from the previous. About a 1/2 mile back we had gone around a left corner and started up and along an North facing slope. What's the reasons for deep snow remaining here in mid June? Apparently local snow “drop-out” from the strong NW wind coming up the previously seen steep ski slope where it then dropped here. Somehow this is in a "back-current area shielded from the wind. The grass covered mountain incline and rock out-crop seen at left, is actually the top of a knoll called “Summit” elevation 10982 feet. The topo map shows that the road, just after the ski lift area, also maxes-out at a “bench mark”(BM = 10938ft). It just occurs to me that this somewhat lower area is a deep cut of an East-West side canyons that leads to the deeper Rock Creek Canyon. We have already seen a previous example of this. The photo shows a right curve. After the curve the road travels Southwest, then goes up a bit onto a high level area, swings to the Southeast, then enters a long right curve and starts down to the Southwest. After this curve the road is trending down and to the West along a South facing hillside. This produces more flowers. This slope appears in the 3rd and 4th next photos. ************************************ (Photo = 106-0623 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt = 140`|w|' 10920ft)](http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/albums/album07/106_0623_IMG.sized.jpg "The Deep Snow Bank Reaches Exactly To the Edge of the Pavement. Tundra and a Rock Out-Cropping Are Seen Up the Mountain Side. View Southeast. “ ….[between banks of old snow,] the way snow looks in early spring after a thaw. “ Snow Fields, Beartooth Highway, MT. This photo is about 100 feet up hill from the previous. About a 1/2 mile back we had gone around a left corner and started up and along an North facing slope. What's the reasons for deep snow remaining here in mid June? Apparently local snow “drop-out” from the strong NW wind coming up the previously seen steep ski slope where it then dropped here. Somehow this is in a \"back-current area shielded from the wind. The grass covered mountain incline and rock out-crop seen at left, is actually the top of a knoll called “Summit” elevation 10982 feet. The topo map shows that the road, just after the ski lift area, also maxes-out at a “bench mark”(BM = 10938ft). It just occurs to me that this somewhat lower area is a deep cut of an East-West side canyons that leads to the deeper Rock Creek Canyon. We have already seen a previous example of this. The photo shows a right curve. After the curve the road travels Southwest, then goes up a bit onto a high level area, swings to the Southeast, then enters a long right curve and starts down to the Southwest. After this curve the road is trending down and to the West along a South facing hillside. This produces more flowers. This slope appears in the 3rd and 4th next photos. ************************************ (Photo = 106-0623 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt = 140`|w|' 10920ft)")