"You can find you answers on http://www.brmsstore.com/blogs/jennifer/article/9/high-mountain-vocabulary Search for <snow cups> on the page. It is basically due to ununiform cooling, and resulting catastrophe."

"It is from the top of a 14200 feet summit in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range: Split Mountain ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_Mountain_(Sierra_Nevada) ) ."

"sahin ......"

"Is it for real........why did the snow shape up like a cone ?? do u know the scientific reason behind it...........just curious......never seen snow in such ordered form.......dont know what fold symmetry they exhibit ??"

"mera dil garden garden ho raha is naazareyon ko dekh ke!!!"