After doing some research, I discovered there is quite a bit more to the Rocky Mountains than high altitudes and pretty mountain views. First, I found the Rocky Mountains may not be here much longer. In The Rocky Mountains' Largest Glaciers Are Melting with Little Fanfare, Storrow talks to outdoor education professor Darran Wells, who has watched the glaciers on the mountains’ faces shrink year after year. Within the next one hundred years, all the ice on the mountains may be completely gone. Wells describes in detail the research trip he sponsored, where students took snow samples and analyzed them for carbon and mapped the ice sheets using geospatial software to see how the glaciers are changing (Storrow 2017). Unfortunate, Wyoming officials
