Carbon Glacier
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- The Carbon Glacier has shaped both the landscape of Mount Rainier as well as the history of Mount Rainier National Park. This impressive glacier also plays a powerful role in shaping the future of both the mountain and its national park.
Beautiful video. Thanks for sharing. This deserves more views!
The climate is always changing. The rate of change/warming in the past 2 centuries is insignificant compared to other eras of earths history. It is completely normal for Glaciers to recede. Sometimes it recedes for a long period and sometimes it grows. But glaciers can never do one or the other indefinitely. It’s just the eb and flow of life.
The entire WA area needs to focus on TRASH!!!!
Stop people from climbing the mountain for a few years and see if that has a positive effect. When you have 20,000 people a year climbing mount rainier, thats a lot of damage from ice axes, spikes on the shoes etc. It cant be good for the mountain. What about human waste? It takes days to climb Rainier, where are these 20,000 people using the bathroom? Are they pissing on MR? If you want to protect the mountain, start here.
The ice axes and crampons do very little damage in comparison to the huge mass of ice that makes up the mountain. There are only two major climbing routes that see probably 90% of the ascents. The other routes are wilderness routes. The major climbing routes get snowed in in no time every winter. As to the human waste, it has to be blue bagged and you have to carry it off the mountain. Park regulations. Does everybody follow the rules, not always, but I do. The busy high camps have 50 gallon drums that you can deposit your blue bags in for helicopter removal. Camp Muir even has a decomposing toilet. This is park, as for all National Parks, are yours and mine. They belong to everybody. They are not just the play ground of the elite and scientists.
You clearly know nothing about climbing on Mt Rainier.