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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy.bsky.social

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Assiduous dendroglaciologist, moraine lover, wandering geomorphologist, living in the Holocene, climate (and eco-) anxious, @edytem.bsky.social https://wemakeit.com/projects/glacier-subfossil-wood?locale=en

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Oct 21

Aletsch Glacier forefield is so gigantic that fieldwork is demanding there!
Today was maybe one of the hardest working day ever...
Took me 3h40 to get back to Belalp with 40kg (rope, chainsaw, wood)... 😫

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 7h

Last rays on the Dom (4545 m) tonight, the highest mountain entirely in Switzerland! 🏔

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 7h

Hobarg Glacier and Hobarghorn (4218 m) tonight! 🥰

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 7h

Monte Rosa (4634 m) tonight! 🤩

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 7h

The Kinhorn (3750 m) in the Mischabels range tonight! 🤩

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 7h

Such an impressive mountain! 🏔

The Weisshorn (4506 m) tonight from Weisshornhütte! 😍

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 7h

Pure Beauty! 🤩

Rimpfischhorn (4199 m) tonight!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 7h

How many moraine ridges can you spot here ?

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 8h

The sun has just passed behind the Zinalrothorn, revealing the entire Hohlicht Glacier and its extinct front at the valley bottom! 😰

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 8h

The beautiful Rimpfischhorn (4199 m) at the end of the Täschalp! 😍

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 8h

Moraines are eroding.

Streams are meandering.

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 8h

Inside the ice cave of the Hohlicht Glacier today! 🧊

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 8h

Inside the ice cave of the Hohlicht Glacier! 🧊

Mischabels at the background! 🏔

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 8h

At the foreground is the relict front of the Hohlicht Glacier separated by hundreds of metres of elevation from the active front! 😰

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 17h

Zinalrothorn (4 221 m) towering the mighty Hohlicht Glacier and its magnificent forefield today!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 18h

Dragon's last breath before falling asleep!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever seen a landslide destroying a moraine – the deposit of which is now overlooking a proglacial lake in formation where icebergs float?

Now you have!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

Findelen impressive glacier forefield features all that is present in textbooks: lengthy lateral moraines, beautiful roches moutonnées and a huge floodplain!