The Glacier’s Gone 3 – Left hanging! EarthCache
The Glacier’s Gone 3 – Left hanging!
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The starting place for this series is the Ogwen Warden Centre at N53 07.23 W 004 01.11. There is Pay-and-Display parking at the centre or you can park up the road on a free car park. Follow the public footpath.
Small streams flowing down a mountainside are a common sight in hill country. They flow gently down the slopes. As they flow, they erode soils and small rocks to make typical V-shaped valleys on the hillside. They join other streams to form a river in the valley below. But if a glacier is in the area, its brute force hacks off the gentle slopes, and when the glacier retreats and melts, the little streams up above go crashing over the edge in a waterfall from their hanging valley. If you stand with your back to the lake you can see the hanging valley, and its stream, above you.
To prove you have been here, please take a photo of you or your GPS with the hanging valley in the background, and answer the following question in your log:
USING YOUR GPS, WHICH SIDE OF THE LAKE IS THE HANGING VALLEY ON? - NORTH SOUTH EAST OR WEST - OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN?
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