Panorama of the Bear Tooth Pass summit

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Keen observers will see the ski lift towers on the edge of the snow pack on the left. With youth on my side, in an earlier time (and with no ice on the tarn) I might scramble down to the edge of the cirque pond below. This photograph could be used as a textbook illustration of these unique glacial features, made by the rotating motion of a long vacated glacier in the bowl below. The gravel moraine that dams the little lake marks the terminal deposition of debris from the bottom of that ghost glacier. It is a classic example of the type.