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July 8, 2015
Big Four Glacier & Ice Caves, WA: a short future?
The Big Four ice caves area popular hiking destination 90 minutes northeast of Seattle in the North Cascades. This ice mass is currently the lowest elevation glacier in the lower 48 states. It is fed by tremendous avalanching from higher on Big Four Mountain. During the winter the snow piles up on the avalanche fan. In the summer the waterfall from above carves tunnels under the snow-ice mass. At some …
Dean of Academic Affairs at Nichols College and Professor of Environmental Science at Nichols College in Massachusetts since 1989. Glaciologist directing the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project since 1984. This project monitors the mass balance and behavior of more glaciers than any other in North America.