Word: gulch
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Snow slides are quite like miniature glaciers, being formed by forty or fifty feet of snow drifting info a deep mountain gulch. When the spring rains come, the water percolates through this body, causing the bottom of it to melt away. The immense mass, weighing hundreds of tons, then starts on its swift course down the chasm, tearing everything before it. One picture showed how a slide had cut a straight, narrow path directly through a forest, and in one instance had driven a log completely through a larger tree. The momentum of these slides coming from such a height...