Word: glaciers
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...space. The vast, treeless continent conveys the awesome inertia of a place where motion is noticeable only on a geological time scale, as though the extreme cold flowing out from the polar plateau has slowed the pulse of life itself. On the ice sheets, ice streams 50 miles wide--glaciers within a glacier, in effect--look like frozen rapids when seen from space. Only if time-lapse photography could collapse many hundreds of years would the continent look alive as the ice flowed and cracked, redistributing its mass according to the laws governing gravity and friction...
...growing number of people who hate them. Antisnowmobilers complain that the motorized sleds, with their primitive but powerful two-cycle engines, are loud, dirty and dangerous and that they intrude on quieter users of public lands. Most national parks tightly restrict their use; California's Yosemite and Montana's Glacier national parks prohibit them outright...
Competitors in adventure racing spend from three to ten days in the wilderness, competing in events including glacier climbing, whitewater rafting and horseback riding...
...glacier is quite active, moving about 2 to 3 feet a day. Thousands of icebergs break off into the sound each year; about once a year, a ship hits one, but there have been no sinkings or drownings...
...glacier is more then just ice--bands of sentiment, known as moraines, sit astride the west side of the glacier. However, except for moss, the Harvard Glacier supports no life...