Whoa?! What came down the mountain? EarthCache
Boris the Spider 7: I made this when I was 13 years old and do not really remember too much about it, unfortunately, so I cannot vouch for how accurate the information in the cache description is anymore, or if it was even very accurate to begin with. For that reason, I don't feel as though it's responsible for me to keep this one up, and I actually thought I archived this years ago. I would like to apologize to any potential cachers that are currently doing the Bowron Lakes chain and find out afterwards that this Earthcache has been archived, but if there's anyone with a better understanding of earth science than me that believes this area to be of geological significance (I can remember that it looked interesting, at least), feel free to replace this Earthcache with your own.
Thanks for the understanding.
Whoa?! What came down the mountain?
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You ever wonder why there are giant lines of non-evergreen vegetation down some of the mountains, and barely anything at the bottom of them. How is this possible?
Of course, every year, winter happens, and snow starts to appear on the mountains, and avalanches are common. As you might already know, avalanches are huge "landslides" of snow that come down the mountain when, usually, too much snow piles up and gets too heavy, or from human activity. Avalanches bring down a lot of trees and create a large "strip" of devastation down the mountain. As you probably would see, deciduous trees have grown were the avalanche hit. Deciduous trees grow faster, but the surrounding evergreen trees grow taller, and will eventually replace the deciduous trees, along with the scar left by the avalanche. To differ an avalanche from a landslide, if it's the summer, you would not see rocks at the bottom because it was snow that brought everything down the mountain, and has melted. Never go onto a mountain with snow on it that does not usually recieve human activity because you can trigger an avalanche, and they are hard to survive in. Many of these avalanche "strips" can be seen along Mowdish Range on Lanezi Lake, so you'd have be doing the Bowron Lakes Chain, which I did with my parents, sister and friends in August 2011, and it was a lot of fun :-)
To log this Earthcache, log the following:
1. Why does it seem to have more avalanche strips on the north side of Lanezi Lake then the south?
2. Look closely at the avalanche slide. How hard do you think it would be to survive, if you were standing in the middle of the forest, and an avalanche hits?
If you post a picture of one of the
avalanches "strips" you may have viewed on the Bowron Lakes Chain and post the name of the lake where you took the picture. Just take the picture from lake; they're easy to see. (this is optional, but I'd love to see your photos) :-)
Thanks :-)
Boris the Spider 7
PS: As you probably have noticed, I don't have any pictures of anything added in myself. Instead, I put waypoints of where a couple of them are.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
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