The largest glacier between the high peaks of Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak has melted away after a long battle with global warming. FOX13
For thousands of years, the Hinman Glacier graced the crest of the Washington Cascades in what is now King County.
Until recently, the Hinman was one of four named glaciers that provided cool water to the Skykomish River in the hottest, driest time of the year. In the 1950s, the Hinman Glacier flowed a mile and a half from the broad top of 7,492-foot Mount Hinman to the valley floor nearly 2,000 feet below. Glaciers are rivers of ice. They flow from year to year, as their own weight compresses snow into ice, and generate striking features like deep crevasses and deep-blue ice, sculpting the land beneath them as they go.
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