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Zack

@leapmotion.bsky.social

#winterlandscape #mountains #naturephotography #mistymorning #sunlight #silhouette #mountainview #forestvibes #serenemoments #scenicview #snowpatches #calmness #wintervibes #peacefulscenery #naturelove #landscapephotography #tranquility #outdoorlife #wanderlust #hikingviews #chasinglight

January 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM Everybody can reply

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Michael Richmond

@beartoothskier.bsky.social

Wanted to find shorter way up to disappearing Grasshopper Glacierhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KViE-ecAg4 than the 37K all day brute last time. It was nearly gone 2 yrs ago. Mapping said Lady of Lake trail, continuing past Zimmer L. would work, did not. #climate #hiking #dogs #montana #mountains

Got some tundra time on return Beartooth Plateau. Parked our fav. spot on highway below ski area at 3250m. still some snow for Sundance. tundra drying fast. these large barren areas by the snowpatches are larger meaning more of them are melting out completely.

had to turn back around the corner up there. had we been able continue there is 3300m saddle past Zimmer Lake which would be remains of Grasshopper. if that hike were as seen on map, it would be 26K total, instead of 37.

3593m Pilot Peak way in back there not so pointy looking at it from N. This is from rough Lulu Pass Rd., only drove halfway in to Upper Lady of the Lake trailhead. Walked the rest, steep, rocky, curved, gullies. I like having certainty when I return after a hike.

this big snowdrift part of which used to over-summer will be completely gone by early Sept. 3300m, the highway is on top of it!

July 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM Everybody can reply

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Ethan Shaw

@cutoffmountain.bsky.social

Tang of fall under the brooding crest & its crags, pillars, & notches (and a few small lingering snowpatches)

September 5, 2023 at 4:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Ethan Shaw

@cutoffmountain.bsky.social

Fast-shrinking snowpatches from mid-January falls in the loess hills above the Touchet...

February 5, 2024 at 6:04 PM Everybody can reply

Ethan Shaw

@cutoffmountain.bsky.social

Scenes from snowfield fieldwork: timberline elfinwood/distant pyrocumulus/mountaintop ravens hunting swarming tortoiseshell butterflies/outlaw snowpatches.

September 6, 2024 at 6:10 PM Everybody can reply

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eris 🦋🐈‍⬛ 🫘

@aieris.bsky.social

last of the ice

#Thaw #Lake #SnowPatches #Mountains #Hazy #EarlySpring
#Img2Img #AiArt #AiArtists #StableDiffusion

on things: fineartamerica.com/featured/las...

Shore of a thawing lake in early spring, with some patches of snow still unmelted, set against a mountain backdrop under a hazy sky.

April 16, 2024 at 8:59 PM Everybody can reply

Michael Richmond

@beartoothskier.bsky.social

Been lucky so far this summer not too smoky. But ending, smoke filtering from W in upper flow with ridging sliding east. Views hazy on 24K hike Camp Senia trail starting 2400m in WFork Canyon up to 3300m then back. 8K in 3000m + Red Lodge Crk. Plateau is attained 👍🏽. #climate #hiking #dogs #montana

heading down into the Faerie Forest 2850m on return, harsh cold area with coarse granitic soil makes for interesting visuals. Nice Whitebark Pine there looks like a fungi 😜

now there is a happy boy. watering hole 3150m looking North, that smoke layer was brushing us. could smell it, from fires in Western MT and ID.

it helps knowing where are the watering holes above 2900m are, most away from the trail. Caught this just in time, but there are others nearby. Canyon behind, with Silver Run Plateau way back.

here at 3200m looking north out to the Plains 1800m or more lower. two snowpatches below, but they didn't make the effort. smoke layer rite at our level.

August 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM Everybody can reply

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Maarten Welbergen

@maart4me.bsky.social

Snowpatches
Pastel on paper

January 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM Everybody can reply

Caroline Aubry-Wake

@cryocaro.bsky.social

First up, we had Eole Valence @EPS_McGill looking at how exposed boulders influence the melt of mountain snowpatches using a combo of thermal imagery, lidar, UAV photogrammetry and geophysics. Conclusion: more radiation on snow near rocks, but unclear net effect on melt pattern.

November 20, 2024 at 3:52 PM Everybody can reply

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Ethan Shaw

@cutoffmountain.bsky.social

Hunting out final snowpatches in an obscure range, amid crown-of-spikes snags & wolf sign...

August 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM Everybody can reply

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Michael Richmond

@beartoothskier.bsky.social

Only do Silver Run rd/trail hike up to that Plateau 1-2X a year. Steep/rocky ascent 1920m - 2865m in 6K 😜. Slow up and at times down have be careful. Drier only little trickle for 4K near top to stream 3000m. Tundra turning crunchy in windy areas, little smoky too. #hiking #dogs #climate #montana

steep 100m + drop here from 3000m looking NE down eventually into Wfork canyon, and out onto the plains.

looking south over the lower portions of this Silver Run Plateau then Rock Crk. Canyon. Beartooth Plateau in far distance you can even see the highway way back on left. little ski area 3300m where the snowpatches are.

thank goodness for that melting ice patch providing us with the little stream 12K from the start. Otter sure needed it. This trail is actually the Timberline Lake trail here, goes up behind that slope to a 3250m pass, then drops gradually back down into Westfork Canyon thru a side gulch.

love this beautiful Whitebark Pine in slightly wind protected area 3000m. hundreds of years old, favorable growth area. still some lupine color left here

August 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Ethan Shaw

@cutoffmountain.bsky.social

As meteorological spring unfolds, snowpatches pattern the foothills & uplands while the mountain snowpack continues to stockpile water…

March 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Cam Walker

@camwalker.bsky.social

Woah.

‘Australian alpine regions have experienced ~1°C warming since the 1970s with substantial decline in the amount of snow

‘The area occupied by snowpatch plant communities has decreased since then: 86% of snowpatches have declined, on average by 41.6%’.
themountainjournal.com/2023/10/03/a...

October 3, 2023 at 6:44 AM Everybody can reply

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