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Snowy Range of the Medicine Bow Mountains

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WY 130 West End
Exit 235, I 80 15 miles east of Rawlins

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Snowy Range of the Medicine Bow Mountains
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NW Side: Gentle rounded peaks
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Covered with quartzite rubble
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SE Side: scoured cliffs made by ancient glaciers, scour along plunging axis of uplift
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Medicine Bow Peak (≥12,000')
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Lake Marie, last of a series of paternoster lakes from Snowy Range glaciers
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Nearly the first car into the campground
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Marsh marigolds everywhere (first flower after freshly melted snow)
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Close Up
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That water is COOOLLLLDDDDD
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Rouche Montonnee (glacial landform)
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View to the left
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White pre-Cambrian quartzite forms the core of the Snowy Range Uplift
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Mirror Lake beneath Medicine Bow Peak
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Rouche montonnee at the head of Mirror Lake
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This rouche montonnee is the divide between North Platte and Laramie Rivers
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Serious photographer
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Browns Peak (11,722') and glacial headwaters of the Laramie River
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Mt. Zirkel (12,180') highest peak in the Park Range
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Desert all the way to Laramie (I 80 Exit 311 Laramie)
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