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RE: Hoodoo Voodoo

I can only imagine what the whole experience must be like. Too bad you can't be there overnight. I think I'd need weeks to explore that area.

Your description of the stone answers some of my questions. I'm not familiar with tuff, but I see it's also connected to volcanic activity, the same as pumice is. Several sites I've looked at are basalt, which is also supposed to be volcanic. I tend to look at chemical compositions of stone, so I'm wandering into that here. The fact you say it reminds you of old decaying concrete made me think of St. Martin's, New Brunswick. There are stones embedded into a soft sandstone in a similar manner, although much denser with the number of them. Reminded me of masonry or concrete the way you described.

Never would have expected to find hoodoos in BC, that's a badass looking shot and place. Do you have any idea how remote the place is where that shot is from?

I stumbled on that by accident, due to our conversation, lol. This one is located in northern British Columbia, about three quarters away from the US border and very close to the coast. It's very isolated from what I see and supposedly the area is covered with glacier for a large part of the time.

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Oops, somehow I missed this. Yeah, I don't know anything about the chemical compositions. Lol, that sounds remote enough for me!

Anyways, I was just reading a bit more on the Tetons and came across this, which might answer questions from an earlier conversation.

Per wikipedia:

Unlike most mountain ranges, the east side of the Teton Range lacks significant foothills or lower peaks which might obscure the view. This is due to the presence of the Teton Fault at the base of the east slope as well as the range being too young to have eroded into soft hills.

Yes, it's really isolated! Interesting what wikipedia says. I'll have to take a look at the land mass where the fault line is. I still think it's rather strange that there are no foothills, regardless of what wiki says.