Romanticizing overpriced ski towns is my guilty pleasure

📍Telluride, CO

Based on climate trends in the Caucasus, Kolka Glacier was not expected to return after the 2002 collapse. But it did! Today it has already regained about 50% of its pre-collapse mass, mostly thanks to constant snow, ice, and rock avalanches filling the basin.

Photos from our 2021 field trip!

I mean…

WTF

Avalanches again, but this time in beautiful Kyrgyzstan (2021). The mountains looked surreal in the windows of the Kyrgyz State Historical Museum. I really miss field trips now, even though I didn’t really enjoyed them at the time. Funny how that works.

It is hard to believe, but I miss Russian winter after 3 years in the United States. Russian far North is my favorite place in the country (after Central Caucasus, of course). Here are some photos from Khibiny mountains (Kola peninsula), where we did snow and avalanche assessment in Jan 2018 & 2022