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  • Glacial polish, also known as glacial glaze, is a geological phenomenon resulting from the abrasive action of glacial ice as it moves over bedrock surfaces.
  • Then we follow the Polish Glacier route up to Camp 2. Crossing the mythic base of the Polish Glacier we will take the Normal Route, in the last stretch up to...
  • The glaciers that carved Yosemite Valley left highly polished surfaces on many of the region’s rock formations.
  • With glacial polish – because one of the surfaces is the glacier, the polish is only on one rock surface.
  • A 12 to 16 hours of climbing a day is very much possible when climbing the Polish Glacier.
  • ...in this post we fast forward to the Plesitocene (some 110,000 to 12,000 years ago) to discover more about how glaciers shaped Yosemite’s lan ...[Read More].
  • Lyell Glacier is no longer active, but McClure Glacier is still moving and has an ice cave at its toe that enabled the researchers to collect fresh polish from an area of...