Great Basin National Park
Sept 4, 2019 14:14:52 GMT -5
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Post by nowyo on Sept 4, 2019 14:14:52 GMT -5
We took some time over the holiday weekend to go over to Great Basin National Park. Being the second least visited National Park it wasn't all that busy even on a holiday. I posted pictures of Mount Wheeler back in June, I think. Most of the snow has melted off, but last winter was 200% of average snowfall. Kind of hesitant to post in this sub forum since what I do certainly isn't photography.
Looking into the cirque. Lurking under the rocks that have fallen from the cirque walls is the last remaining glacier in the Great Basin.
We didn't climb to the peak, time was a little short. That is already penciled in for next summer. 13,061 feet.
Curl Leaf Mountain Mahogany
Close up of the Mountain Mahogany. The seeds develop those white corkscrew-like tails.
Looking East. The mountains in the background are in Utah. The valley floor was under water during the Pleistocene, an arm of
Lake Bonneville.
We went on the tour of Lehman Caves while we were there. Those are solution caverns in Cambrian Limestone deposited on the rifted margin of Laurentia about 500-550 million years ago. I have no words to describe it. Had a few pictures that didn't turn out
too horrible so I'll just post them.
If you're in the neighborhood it's well worth the stop. If you're not in the neighborhood then it's well worth heading on over there. Absolutely incredible. Since it's pretty much just over the hill from us we'll most likely go back again.
Thanks for looking.
Russ
