Sugarloaf Mountain

[manumuskin]

I have been Google Earthing my dream trip again and happened to notice an unusual featur.It appears that the top of Sugarloaf Mountain had some huge man made structure on it at one time and when the glaciers swiped away part of the mountains they also took part of the structure.I have attached a kml file that when clicked if you have GE should take you to the location.Has anyone ever heard what this might be?I cannot find anything online about it but I may be putting in the wrong search queries.
Well I have attempted to attach a kmz and a kml file and neither will work.They both are zipped and this site will not take my zipped files so here is the coords for the adventurous.This is in NW montana
47.408097°
-112.934972°
I am in awe of this formation.Clearly manmade and would seem to be older then the ice age that partially destroyed it.

 

[Teegate]

Speaking of mountains, have you viewed the 360 of Apple Pie Hill yet on Google Earth?

 

[manumuskin]

No. Going to scope it out now.I gave up trying to put my panos on 360.They wouldn't come out and say you had to buy the paid version but whenever I tried to upload one there it would go for hours and never finish and when searching help they said they take pay customers first and non paying customers download at a slower rate.Why can't they just reach down and grab a set and say if you don't pay your 360 is not going on Google Earth?

 

[manumuskin]

Nice! He has a stitching error on his nadir and that is supposed to disqualify it for 360 pano so this guy must have forked up the bucks.I had a very hard time making my panos perfect so that 360 would accept them and still they would not upload.Money covers a multitude of sins!

 

[46er]

I have been Google Earthing my dream trip again and happened to notice an unusual featur.It appears that the top of Sugarloaf Mountain had some huge man made structure on it at one time and when the glaciers swiped away part of the mountains they also took part of the structure.I have attached a kml file that when clicked if you have GE should take you to the location.Has anyone ever heard what this might be?I cannot find anything online about it but I may be putting in the wrong search queries.
Well I have attempted to attach a kmz and a kml file and neither will work.They both are zipped and this site will not take my zipped files so here is the coords for the adventurous.This is in NW montana
47.408097°
-112.934972°
I am in awe of this formation.Clearly manmade and would seem to be older then the ice age that partially destroyed it.

Doesn't look manmade to me Al, just the rock formation and erosion at work. 2 shelfs, highest at roughly 1K feet, with steep cliffs on all sides. Maybe it's the fiscal cliff

 

[manumuskin]

two perfectly straight lines with a 90 degree bend said man made to me and a large glacial bite out of the north face.Perhaps I'm wrong,I'm sure what appear to be the remains of walls to me are probably huge but such an odd shape for a mountain summit

 

[46er]

I did some searching and found that there is a radio repeater on it, I think you can see it in the lower left near the point of the cliffs. If you click on the little green tree icon it will show the elevation profile and a tour button. It is right on the spine of the Rockies and continental divide and if you follow it north into Glacier you will find similar formations. A friend lives in the Flathead Valley, I can ask him if he knows of anything manmade that was up there. There is a forest service airport and road about 6 miles to the NE, and the Continental Divide trail passes about 4 miles to the east.

 

[46er]

Here is a picture of Sugarloaf during a fire this past October; Elbow Pass fire.

http://inciweb.org/incident/photograph/3066/24/

 

[manumuskin]

Yes it's probably just a geological formation but it comes off like it's been squared.Don't find many straight lines or perfect 90 degree angles in nature except in rock crystals,perhaps those minute crystals are whats behind this in the long run.