The glacier zoomed in (4/10)

Here is a zoomed in picture of the glacier. The full extent of the glacier can’t be seen because of the 1,000-foot hill that lays in front of it. The glacier actually extends quite a way down the mountain. It is a beautiful area, despite the smoke and haze, but it is incredibly rugged and the only way to get to the glacier is by climbing or with the use of a helicopter.

One thing that is neat about this picture is that you can clearly see the U shape of the mountain, caused by the glacier carrying rocks and dirt downhill. What is harder to see is that this valley isn’t flat. It consists of a number of gently rolling hills that are actually deposits from the glaciers in the distant past, called terminal moraines. As glaciers melt over time, they leave behind a huge amount of rock and dirt they were carrying. Most of the hills in this valley were deposited roughly 10,000 years ago.