High Sierra Topix

A youtube science explainer channel just posted a short video about the algae that causes the snow to turn pink

yummy stuff on Goodale Pass

Watermelon snow

Wonder what's worse, Pink snow or Yellow snow?

Try both and get back to us..

I couldn't make it through that video. That women's screechy voice and non-stop delivery style was worse than someone raking their fingers across a chalkboard.

Fortunately there are numerous sources of online information about watermelon snow. Supposedly it smells like watermelon, but I have never been able to detect any hint of watermelon aroma... or flavor either (I have tasted the pink stuff).

Pink snow, as well as other algae and bacteria, are part of a positive feedback that is helping to melt the world's ice (e.g. Greenland). The warmer temperatures, along with the resultant melt water, encourage the growth of various microorganisms, which in turn reduce the reflectivity of the snow/ice, warming it further. Maybe she said that in the video?


Don't eat the yellow snow?
Gatoritas are a form of yellow snow:

- cheap tequila
- gatorade powder
- snow

I couldn't make it through that video. That women's screechy voice and non-stop delivery style was worse than someone raking their fingers across a chalkboard.

well. if there is sunlight and you have a small square of plastic and some rocks or big chunks of ice, and a cup, you can put the cup in a small depression with the plastic slightly depressed over the cup and let the Sun condense it into the cup. And Urine is pretty much sterile unless it came from someone with a known infection. But no.. I don't go out of my way to try things I don't need at the moment.

That is best left to people like Les Stroud.

That is best left to people like Les Stroud.

What about Bear Grylls, Russ? Or would they just put down a fresh layer of snow (from purified) for him, topped with watermelon syrup, do like he stumbled across it, and then he starts making cocktail drinks from the "Pink Snow"?

Sorry. Bear sucks!

Sorry. Bear sucks!

Oh, no sorry about it Russ, he is phony, especially after reading about him spending the nights in a hotel when he was supposed to be ruffing it the jungle.