Unglaciated Surfaces
August 7th 2011 On the crest of the Sierra, mountains slowly dissipate,
gray to green to brown to smog to my west
and like a cliff they drop off into the Great Basin to the east. Clouds drift across the surface of Mono Lake.
Sky Pilots bloom in the old growth forest of five inch tall perennials.
Flatter surfaces in the alpine, face thrashing winds
and hold no snow. Ice does not form and as the glaciers of t
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