The Hanging Wall Glaciers

The first known name given to the lake was lake maye named after elsie maye starbird nee lewis.

The hanging wall glaciers.

Avalanching and icefalls are the mechanisms for ice and snow transfer to the valley floor below. Elsie maye was born c 1882 and married thomas starbird at age twenty in cooperstown north dakota. A hanging glacier forms high on the mountain wall of a glacial valley and descends only part of the way down to the surface of the main glacier body and then abruptly stops in these cases forming. We opted to hitchhike.

For those without a car getting to ventisquero colgante hanging glacier is an adventure in itself. Dana glacier located in the northern cascades in washington state culminates in an icefall as the glacier flows over a nearly vertical cliff. These are called hanging glaciers. It dominates a valley formed by mountains covered in valdivian temperate rainforest and feeds a river at the bottom of the valley as it melts.

We knew our only options were to either pay a worker at the tourism office in town to drive us there or to hitchhike. The lake of the hanging glacier is located at the end of the rather long horsethief creek valley just outside of invermere. A hanging glacier on mount shuksan. Ventisquero colgante or the hanging glacier can be found in the queulat national park in chile.

This is hanging above a ravine of bare rock. It is the biggest attraction of queulat national park.