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Walking on the edge with the very colorful rock and the beautiful lake below with the little lake in the cirque of Medicine Grizzly Peak.

I ask the question, what is the difference between a hanging valley and a cirque because I'm not sure which that is:

CIRQUE/Corrie
Hollow basin cut into a mountain ridge.
It has steep sided slope on three sides, an open end on one side and a flat bottom.
When the ice melts, the cirque may develop into a tarn lake.

HANGING VALLEY
Formed when smaller tributaries are unable to cut as deeply as bigger ones and remain ‘hanging’ at higher levels than the main valley as discordant tributaries.
A valley carved out by a small tributary glacier that joins with a valley carved out by a much larger glacier.
Jul 28 2018
1/500s 24mm

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