[gb]

[drm]

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[Malachai Constant]

Who are you going to believe me or your lying eyes? - G. Marx

[peltoms]

We had the chance to stand at the end of quite a few Mount Baker glaciers this summer as we do most summers. They are all retreating quite fast. Each one has retreated double digit meters this summer alone. This is not guessing. Anyone who has looked at them can see this without even a measurement. Easterbrook does control the title of the article at Ice Age Now, and has no actual data for his maps. We can look at a satellite image from 9/28/2015 to see changes in the glaciers just this summer on those we did not visit.

[cascadetraverser]

The retreating glacier naysayers must not get out. How can one not firsthand witness the amazing and sad cascade glacier retreat? I remember the extent of the valley portion of the Chickamin glacier in 1987 when I first crossed it enroute to the Suiattle river on the extended Ptarmigan traverse. I did the same trip in 2002 and hiked an additional 15 minutes before I hit the ice (the view from White rock lakes was remarkably different as well). I can only guess what it looks like now....

[peltoms]

Deming Glacier terminus view. Note how close icefall is to terminus now. What a difference reality is from Easterbrook's depiction-fiction. Deming Terminus

[peltoms]

From nearby areas, "shocking levels of melt" in BC Glaciers all but gone in Montana. The story remains the same throughout the PNW though the adjectives may change.

[gb]

I visited Garibaldi Park in 1979 and camped near the western portion of the Helm Glacier at a small lake that did not appear on the map but had obviously had land near it that had been out of the ice for a very long time and was fully vegetated. This year cartman and I returned to this area and descended off Panorama Ridge to this lake. In 1979 ice was still on the edge of this lake; now ice was nowhere near. We descended fresh moraine around 200 vft. to reach the current margin of the Helm Glacier! 200' of ice had melted, articles indicate much of this has been in the last decade (since 2003).

[peltoms]

Indeed Helm Glacier is really suffering. if you have good image of the glacier I could use them in an update of this page. Helm Glacier

[gb]

Mauri, I'll send you some of the Helm from 1979 and 2015.

[gb]

Some don't believe in global warming or at least so they say: Amazing Greenland graphics from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/27/world/greenland-is-melting-away.html?emc=edit_th_20151028&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=57743902&_r=0

[peltoms]

The WHoleU looks at our work in piece with Tom Hammond.

[drm]

Wow, the second picture of that glacial canyon resulting from merged crevasses makes me think of tipping points for a glacier. While snowpack is a bit above average this winter, once you get those kinds of gashes in the glacier and all that melt penetrating to the surface, it probably takes quite a few above-average years to "heal" the damage from a year like the last one.

[cascadetraverser]

Drm: I was wondering the same thing when I read this article; although this has been a great snow year, one has to think we lost multiple years if not decades of glacier bulk last year and it is hard to imagine that will recover in our lifetimes..