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Melaine Le Roy

@subfossilguy.bsky.social

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Assiduous dendroglaciologist, moraine lover, wandering geomorphologist, living in the Holocene, climate (and eco-) anxious, @edytem.bsky.social https://wemakeit.com/projects/glacier-subfossil-wood?locale=en

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Oct 21

Aletsch Glacier forefield is so gigantic that fieldwork is demanding there!
Today was maybe one of the hardest working day ever...
Took me 3h40 to get back to Belalp with 40kg (rope, chainsaw, wood)... 😫

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 6h

Wide angle....

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 6h

Rimpfischhorn (4199 m), Strahlhorn (4190 m) and Findelen glacier tonight! 🤍

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 6h

Obergabelhorn south face at sunset today! 🥰

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 6h

My faithful companion today with Matterhorn...

I have to redo the arrangement of this load dozens of times a day!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 6h

Doesn't seem so but this was the best sample today! 🥰

Can't wait for the dating! 🌲💍

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 6h

Finally here we go !

First sample of the day!

Shattered larch, but decent..

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 6h

Early morning enchantement in october when all water ponds are frozen! 🧊❄️

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 6h

Ice cave collapse at Zmutt Glacier! 🧊🌊

Matterhorn at the background 🏔

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 8h

Matterhorn tonight after the golden hour, when all starts! 🧡

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 9h

Matterhorn in full autumn glory! 🤩

Only the uppermost larches start to blazer! 💛🧡

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 9h

Matterhorn this morning! 😍

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 20h

Morning! :)

Choose your side, light or shadow!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 21h

Monte Rosa massif yesterday evening!

Foreground shows highly depressed tongue of Gorner Glacier in the center where ice is cleaner...

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

It was a very intense day: nine hours on site, searching tirelessly for wood under every rock!

Now I have 40 kg to carry back to Zermatt on foot at night!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Gorner Gorge is truly impressive towered by huge cliff and filled with a chaos of fallen slabs!

Don't want to stay there for a long!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

This isolated ice cliff contains a treasure!

To the right of my pole, a trunk is protruding out of the ice, stuck against a boulder!

I couldn't believe it when I spotted this brown patch first!

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

Gorner Glacier front has changed so much!

Now dead ice is present on both sides of the valley but active front is 100s meters away!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

Morning shapes!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

Must be incredible !! 💪👏

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing this view everyday is quite boring... 🙃

Now that everyone has seen it or knows about it, I think it's time for Zermatt to consider erasing the summit to building a complex of hôtels! 🤪

This place truly lacks decent accommodation! 🤑

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 2d

Dom (4545 m) and Täschhorn (4491 m) tonight! 🔥

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 2d

Breithorn (4165 m) tonight with its summit ice cap! 🤩

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 2d

Monte Rosa tonight! 😍

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 2d

Many subfossil peat clasts spotted in the forefield of Gorner Glacier today!

Difficult to imagine past peat bogs development when you see current landscape! 🔥

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