human
Compose a short description of an uncertain wilderness glacier with gouges, bands, snowmelt, ice, and marks.
assistant
Strange bands have formed in the surface of the ice, layered in wavy patterns from snowmelt caused by slight warming from the sun. The ledge is barely more than a foot wide at this point, offering very little purchase to climbers. Several gouges mar the icy cliff here and there, the marks resembling those from enormous claws.