• shop
  • CFP style
  • image stories
  • galleries
  • events
  • artist services
  • blue glacier project
  • news
  • workshops & speaking
  • about
Menu

Chip Freund Fine Art Photography

  • shop
  • CFP style
  • image stories
  • galleries
  • events
  • artist services
  • blue glacier project
  • news
  • workshops & speaking
  • about
×

Blue Glacier Then & Now Image Pairs : 1982 and 2022

Snow-Fields_5000-5900ft-2022-HD.jpg
Snow-Fields_5000-5900ft-1982-HD.jpg

Snow fields between 5,000 - 5,600 feet northwest of the Blue Glacier


BG-Saddle-2022-HD.jpg
BG-Saddle-1982-HD.jpg

Blue Glacier looking toward Glacier Pass (aka “the saddle”)


BG-South-View-2022-HD.jpg
BG-South-View-1982-HD.jpg

Looking south up the Blue Glacier from its terminus


BG-west-View-2022-HD.jpg
BG-west-View-1982-HD.jpg

Looking northwest from the lateral moraine across the terminus of the Blue Glacier


Olympus-From-Morain-2022.jpg
Olympus-From-Morain-1982.jpg

Looking up to the summit of Mt. Olympus from the lateral moraine close to the terminus of the Blue Glacier


BG-Terminus-2022-HD.jpg
BG-Terminus-1982-HD.jpg

The Blue Glacier has not only reseeded significantly in the past 40 years, but it has lost ~100 feet of thickness at its terminus.

BG-Term-2022-Satview.jpg
BG-Term-1990-Satview.jpg

Satellite imagery taken form Google Earth of the terminus of the Blue Glacier from 1990 and 2022. In that time the terminus has retreated by over 1,100 feet and the width of the glacier has contracted by approximately 700 feet. Additionally, the whole glacier has lost a great deal of thickness. I estimate that it has lost ~100 feet of thickness since I saw it in 1982.

 


Copyright ©2007-2025 Chip Freund Photography - All Rights Reserved Contact Us Shipping Warranty Information Register a Print Privacy Policy