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Climb it before it melts away, suggests Barney Brantingham of Santa Barbara's Independent: "(In the 30-plus years since my son Barclay and I trekked Mount Lyell’s snowy flanks, it’s been melting, not as fast as a vanilla ice cream cone in the summer Sierra sun, but melting. Lyell Glacier’s retreat has speeded up since 2000, says YosemiteContinue reading “A changing California: Lyell Glacier melting away”