The national parks portfolio . Photograph by U. S. Reclamation Service Moonlight on Grand Lake FEATURE of thisregion is the read-ability of its recordsof glacial actionduring the ages when Americawas making. In few otherspots do these evidences, in all*their variety, make themselvesso prominent to the casual is scarcely any partof the eastern side where someenormous moraine does notforce itself upon passing atten-tion. One of the valley villages,Moraine Park, is so named froma moraine built out for milesacross the valleys floor by an-cient parallel glaciers. Scarcely less prominent i
The national parks portfolio . Photograph by U. S. Reclamation Service Moonlight on Grand Lake FEATURE of thisregion is the read-ability of its recordsof glacial actionduring the ages when Americawas making. In few otherspots do these evidences, in all*their variety, make themselvesso prominent to the casual is scarcely any partof the eastern side where someenormous moraine does notforce itself upon passing atten-tion. One of the valley villages,Moraine Park, is so named froma moraine built out for milesacross the valleys floor by an-cient parallel glaciers. Scarcely less prominent isthe long curving hill called theMills Moraine, after Enos Mills,the naturalist, who is knownin Colorado as the father ofthe Rocky Mountain NationalPark. In short, this park is itself aprimer of glacial geology whosesimple, self-evident lessons im-mediately disclose the key to oneof natures chief est scenic Photograph by WtUis T. Lee Longs Peak from Boulder P^ieldAt the extreme right is seen the Keyhole through which the summit is reached 1.^ ^ ^ ^^^# .-V „^|Siiir _^ 1 k. ^- iMrff-. fc>^r^rS ^ ? > ^ ^# k 4 H^^^ ^ JT! BBB^Ja^P^t ?.jijfe^f?^ £4fflfe ^MBK*) ... ??^m^ :^P^^ p^iie^^;*.. \WSM n^HR^Hr.^^Ei^!?^ ^^R»»»^ Ts^^?^^ * - ? j^ ?A^~-miSiaau-. £. c^rl^ ^^p^ t-^v, .;-««ii »-^5fe>-^-^A^S Photograph by Willis T. Lee Full Course of the Mills Moraine The mighty glacier that heaped it a thousand feet high was born at the foot of Longs Peakprecipice. The moraine is four miles long
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