Valley Shaped By Glaciation in Glacier National Park

During the Late Wisconsin Glaciation, which peaked about 20,000 years ago, massive “rivers of ice” filled the lower valleys of Glacier National Park completely. These massive glaciers sculpted the steep, U-shaped profile of the Reynolds Creek valley before melting away entirely by about 10,000 years ago due to a post-Pleistocene warming trend – Reynolds Creek from Going-to-the-Sun Road. There is something about this valley image for me, with the clouds and lush green vegetation, which has a pastoral quality about it. Very calming. (St. Mary, Montana)

≡Canon R5/RF24-240 28mm f/9 1/320sec iso-800