I Never Noticed That Before

     For  forty-five years I have been looking at the mountains that enclose the Robson Valley, but this year I noticed something that I had never noticed before.  If you look at the side of the mountain in the photo above, you can see horizontal lines of snow crossing the mountain mid-slope.  Those seem to indicate sort of terraces on the side of the mountain.  

    I had never seen that before.  I think the reason it is so visible now is because of the forest fire we had a couple of years ago, and the amount of snow we had this winter.  The snow was just deep enough to melt on the angled slope, but still remaining on the flatter areas.

    I am not sure whether those “terraces” are the result of different layers of bedrock, or something caused by the glacier that once filled our valley.  Those terraces are also evident on the slope of the mountain just to the right of this one.

    We do learn something every day.

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