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Forefoot—The part of a dry glacier adjoining the terminal moraine.
Gendarme—Name applied to an isolated rock tower or pinnacle, separated from the mass of which it had originally been a part.
Glacier—The form in which snow falling on the higher parts of a mountian range, above snowline, finds its way down into the valleys. The ice overflows from a firn or névé.
Glacier Table—A block of stone, a boulder, supported by a column of ice which its shade has preserved from melting; generally seen on a dry glacier.
Glissade—To slide down a steep snow-slope; performed sitting or standing according to the conditions of the snow. An ice-axe or alpenstock is used to steer by.
Grat—An edge or sharp ridge; corresponds to "arête."
Hanging Glacier—An overhanging glacier, formed in a crevice on the cliffs of a mountain side.
Hanging Valley—A tributary valley opening high up on the side of a main valley; often carved out by glacial erosion. It is generally marked by an abrupt step at the mouth, due to the eroding agency having continued its work in the main valley long after it had ceased in the hanging valley.
Height of Land—The watershed between two drainage areas. A crest from which the ground slopes in opposite directions; corresponds to "divide" or "watershed."
Hoodoos—The name given in Western Canada to certain grotesque columns, the products of eroison, left standing on the slopes of mountains and deep gulches.
