Hikers negotiate loose talus on interbedded sandstone, siltstone, and shale of the Uinta Mountain Group at the head of the Henrys Fork basin; view looking north. Like all the major valleys throughout the Uintas, the Henrys Fork basin contained ice during Pleistocene glacial episodes, the most recent being around 24,000 to 12,000 years ago.

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