Quote Originally Posted by CrazyCarl View Post
I friggin love boulderland!!! It's about 90kms of the best high altitude crazyness around and probably a lot of fun to backpack

The whole plateau you crossed before getting to Litang was once the ocean floor that uplifted to 4500m and then eventually got covered in glaciers. The glaciers dragged those massive boulders around and put them in all kinds of whacked out places. You were lucky to go through there with such nice weather.

In 2008 a couple from Australia went through that pass and has to spend the night in a snow storm at 4600m before reaching Litang. Snow was so deep, it was over the axles. Can you say sleeping bags and good tent???

Did you see the Rabbit Ear Mountain (TuEr Shan) on that road?

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THAT day Carl, was the highlight ride of the trip. It was magical....I loved the mountain views too but passing the wetlands and the rocks were phenomenal. And I am so happy you explained how the rocks found their homes there....the whole time I was thinking about it but I never suspected it was glaciers...and was going to forward the photos of that area to geologist friends to ask what they thought. So now I don't have to! Although hearing more would be great too.