The Glacier’s Gone 2 – U see? EarthCache
The Glacier’s Gone 2 – U see?
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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.
Glaciers don’t stand still. They move like a huge frozen river. And they are so huge, and so heavy that they grind solid rock as they inch forward. One way of telling that you are in an area where glaciers flowed is to look at the shape of the valleys. Typical river valleys form a V-shape. But glacial valleys make a much wider U-shape. As you reach this waymark you can see in front of you the Nant Ffrancon Pass with its clear U-shape. Can you imagine this whole valley filled up to the top with ice flowing away from you? That’s what it was like here 10,000 years ago in the last Ice Age.
To prove you have been here, please take a photo of you or your GPS with the U-shaped valley in the background, and answer the following question in your log:
USING YOUR GPS, APPROXIMATELY WHICH DIRECTION DOES THE U-SHAPED VALLEY GO? - NORTH? SOUTH? EAST? WEST? - OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN?
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