Piute County News | 1947-08-01 | Page 6 | Glacier Striped with Bands Containing Grasshoppers

glacier striped with bands containing Contain ino grasshoppers millions of grasshoppers fill I 1 grasshopper glacier near cook C 0 ok mont swarms of insects were carried by the wind to a great height frigid breezes over the glacier cooled them the insects and they fell into the pit snows covered the grasshoppers other swarms met the same fate in time the glacier became striped with black bands of frozen insects same some of them 60 feet deep and the dark stripes may still be seen there today