Quote Originally Posted by mookien View Post
Simon: Thanks for posting those beautiful pictures. Scary bears. Now, I suspect I know where you get your moniker, ... though that last one looks like a big "Black". Those peaks above Moraine Lake resemble the Maroon Bells in Colorado. They were probably formed by similar geological forces - upthrust followed by glacial carving, ... or something like that.

John
Thanks John, you are right abut the glacial erosion, plus these mountains are only a few million years old they haven't been worn down quite so much as yet.