Eliot Glacier in 1989 - Then & Now
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Grannyhiker
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Re: Eliot Glacier in 1989 - Then & Now
If we keep getting snows like last year and this year, we might see glaciers stop receding--we might even see a small advance!
Re: Eliot Glacier in 1989 - Then & Now
Thats what I keep thinking, Granny....
Screw global warming.... We have had bad long winters 3 years now. I'm just not believing it!
I wonder if the glaciers will grow. That would be pretty incredible.
Screw global warming.... We have had bad long winters 3 years now. I'm just not believing it!
I wonder if the glaciers will grow. That would be pretty incredible.
Jamey Pyles
Re: Eliot Glacier in 1989 - Then & Now
just looked at this post for the first time.
I teach ice climbing and we go up on the Elliot and White River among other glaciers on Mt Hood.
18/19 years ago the Elliot had 3 separate ice falls. The lowest one had some good climbing up to 30- 40 ft high, its gone. The middle section had 50 ft climbs, now we are lucky to find 25+ft. The upper is still large but unstable in the center so not much visited (then and now). The glacier, '89 and 09, still extends to close to the lower portion of the photos, the ice is in places covered with 10 or more feet of rock. When I first stepped on the White River glacier 15 years ago we had a crevasse we could drop into 50 some feet to where it choked off with unknown amount of glacier below that. Every year that I have been back there the crevasse got shallower, last time there 3 yrs ago it was ten feet deep with the rock floor showing. Side slopes, rock outcrops, lowest elevation of free ice has all changed. We are defiantly loosing glacier fast.
I teach ice climbing and we go up on the Elliot and White River among other glaciers on Mt Hood.
18/19 years ago the Elliot had 3 separate ice falls. The lowest one had some good climbing up to 30- 40 ft high, its gone. The middle section had 50 ft climbs, now we are lucky to find 25+ft. The upper is still large but unstable in the center so not much visited (then and now). The glacier, '89 and 09, still extends to close to the lower portion of the photos, the ice is in places covered with 10 or more feet of rock. When I first stepped on the White River glacier 15 years ago we had a crevasse we could drop into 50 some feet to where it choked off with unknown amount of glacier below that. Every year that I have been back there the crevasse got shallower, last time there 3 yrs ago it was ten feet deep with the rock floor showing. Side slopes, rock outcrops, lowest elevation of free ice has all changed. We are defiantly loosing glacier fast.