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Glacier Trail (Wheeler Peak)

Great Basin NP (non-cave), United States

A moderately strenuous 2.5-mile scramble to the base of Wheeler Peak Glacier, traversing talus fields and alpine tundra to reach the ice—a technical geology lesson written in blue ice and exposed rock layers. Photographers and geology enthusiasts will find infinite subjects in the erosional landscape.

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