Slope gradient ranges from 2 to 60 or more percent. The soils formed in materials weathered from underlying limestone and shale. At the type location the average annual precipitation is 20 inches. These are the Almont and Haverly soils and the competing Ptarmigan soils. Almont soils are poorly to somewhat poorly drained and have common mottles in and below the lower part of the A1 horizon.
Haverly soils are very strongly acid.
These soils are used principally as native pastureland or for recreational purposes. Native vegetation is mainly kobresia, sedges, alpine blue grass, tufted hairgrass, bistort, cinquefoil, and willow. Alpine mountainous areas of central Colorado. This series is of moderate extent. Gunnison County, Colorado, 1974.