話說看完露易絲湖的驚艷日出,眾人決定一探露易絲湖的源頭,大約20公里到達Plain of Six Glaciers,沿途有兩個茶亭,汲取高山湖水配上大紅袍。
露易絲湖水厚厚地奶藍,往往若乾落基山脈中的湖水展現不同平常的顏色,是由於冰山之粉(Rock flour, or glacial flour)的作用。
Rock flour, or glacial flour, consists of fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock, generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or by artificial grinding to a similar size. Because the material is very small, it becomes suspended in meltwater making the water appear cloudy, which is sometimes known as glacial milk.[1][2]
一路順着水聲追尋,在高處看露易絲湖, 湖面就像一塊綢緞,路過鏡子湖,途經若干瀑布,水聲潺潺,從石壁流下穿出,只能讚嘆,語言再次顯得蒼白無力。