Mount Juneau, Alaska, USA
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Mount Juneau overlooks the city of Juneau, Alaska. It's a typical peak of Southeastern Alaska—steep-sided, heavily vegetated, rapidly eroding. Things in Alaska are outsized, and that includes the geology. This region is being uplifted, glaciated, eroded, quaked and erupted faster than most places on Earth.
Mount Juneau is falling down in landsides, as you can see from the narrow chutes that they carve down its sides. The basic steep, curvy shape of the mountain is due to its being sculpted by glaciers in the recent past.
Once upon a time I participated in a research cruise on the Gulf of Alaska that ended at Juneau.
