Wow, I felt the forces of nature on this hike, we started in the cool afternoon sunshine of the High Sierra hiking to Dog Lake and Lembert Dome.
At the Lake it was buggy (mozzies and black flies) and warm. I found that the thin cooler air at 9000' makes for quite tough uphills.
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| Dog Lake along the Lembert Dome hiking trail |
As we approached Lembert Dome, the weather changed rapidly, huge black low clouds, thunder, lighting, rain, we even walked through hail at one point on the descent. The temperature dropped below 50 degrees and we were really cold by the time we got back to the car.
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| Rain. The first clouds and rain we have seen in California in 5 weeks. |
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| Hike up Lembert Dome |
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| Exhilarated by the hike, rain was on its way though! |
The raw beauty of Lembert Dome, which is a roche moutonnee.
Such a treat to see the landforms that I learnt about in geography many decades ago!
In glaciology, a roche moutonnée (or sheepback) is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier. The passage of glacier ice over underlying bedrock often results in asymmetric erosional forms as a result of abrasion on the 'stoss' (up-ice) side of the rock and plucking on the 'lee' (down-ice) side. These erosional features are seen on scales of less than a metre to several hundred metres
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| Lembert Dome, Yosemite National Park |
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