SWriverstone Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 A friend just emailed this to me and I couldn't resist posting it here. Photos of an incredibly cool natural phenomenon I'd never heard of nor seen. And it's 100% real—as far as I can tell, not an April Fool's joke (unless someone can debunk it...) http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/otx/photo_gallery/snow_rollers.php Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 very cool, reminds me of the giant snow wheels i've seen in the snoqualmie backcountry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 i call frosted over hay rolls... not a chance... snow weighs a ton in those volumes. Too hollow for hay rolls, doesn't explain the collapsed ones. It does look like they follow the bailer swathes. Also it says they're 18"-24" tall, I've seen funky snow formations way bigger than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Dahl Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 See these on top of the North Cascade hwy pass, only skinny like donuts. Possible, just haven't seen 'em like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeW Posted April 16, 2009 Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 reminds me of tumbleweed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted April 16, 2009 Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 Seen those in the Campbell Basin at Crystal after avi control and warm temps. Actually rode down surrounded by moving ones made from my turns, some 3 ft in diameter:eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjvircks Posted April 16, 2009 Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 i call frosted over hay rolls... not a chance... snow weighs a ton in those volumes. Take a close look at certain ones. you can see that the initial innermost layers are very narrow and as the roll gets larger and larger the layers get wider and wider resulting in an inverted cone shape at the ends. Ever see the devil's racetrack out in Death Vally? Smallish stones on an apparently perfectly flat terrain have been imperceptably moving for decades, all in a consistant direction, leaving trails behind them. Really weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultan Guy Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 In eastern Washington there are many strange things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjvircks Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 In eastern Washington there are many strange things. Back in the 80's... I and three friends drove out to Chelan WA. to fly hangliders from the butte there. We were somewhat dumbfounded as we drove across the vast expanses of flat plains of eastern Wash. and seeing here and there A HUGE BOULDER!!! just sitting there... right in the middle of nowhere!! They seemed as if they had just fallen straight down from the sky. I recall seeing a house built right next to one and if memory serves me well the rock was about 3 times as tall as the house. After seeing something like that it was easy for me to understand how primative cultures would invent all powerfull gods to would throw these things around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeW Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 Back in the 80's... I and three friends drove out to Chelan WA. to fly hangliders from the butte there. We were somewhat dumbfounded as we drove across the vast expanses of flat plains of eastern Wash. and seeing here and there A HUGE BOULDER!!! just sitting there... right in the middle of nowhere!! They seemed as if they had just fallen straight down from the sky. I recall seeing a house built right next to one and if memory serves me well the rock was about 3 times as tall as the house. After seeing something like that it was easy for me to understand how primative cultures would invent all powerfull gods to would throw these things around. Must be the rock deposit by the receeding glacier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjvircks Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 nope... aliens trying to hit gophers from the moon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 ding, ding, ding, ding, Lee W, you've just won a large pile of small boulders that covers the top of a mountain peak just noth of Snoqualmie Pass, WA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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