Eliot Glacier Photos
Repeat Photos
Left image taken July 23, 1901 by H.F. Reid (courtesy the Mazamas). Right image taken July 22, 2005 by K.M. Jackson. Note thinning of glacier and bedrock ridges that have been exposed.
Left image taken July 23, 1901 by H.F. Reid (courtesy the Mazamas). The glacier terminus is visible on the left side of the photo. Right image taken July 22, 2005 by K.M. Jackson. Note the glacier ice is gone and vegetation has increased.
Left image taken September 15, 1935 by A.J. Gilardi (courtesy the Mazamas). The rock-covered glacier terminus is visible in the center of the photo (note where the stream begins). Right image taken July 22, 2005 by K.M. Jackson. Note the glacier has deflated and the stream starts farther up-valley.
Science Photos
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Left: water exiting a crevasse near the start of the debris cover. Right: supraglacial meandering stream.
Debris emerging from the ice.
Left: thin debris layer on the ice surface. Right: large rock emerging from the ice.
Stream cutting into the ice on a meander.
Waterfall into a crevasse.
Left: Oliver standing over a waterhole on the glacier surface. Right: lying on the debris cover.
Heath and I drilling stake 12 (photo R. Robb).
Drilling stake 12 (photo R. Robb).
First hole drilled (stake 12) (photo R. Robb).
Attaching PVC together to make stake 12 (photo R. Robb).
Attempting to dig to ice near boulder 1 (photo R. Robb).
Drill in the ice under debris layer.
Heath with the drill around stake 8.
Pulling the drill with four flight extensions out of the glacier.
Left: stake 12 prior to re-drilling. Right: stake 12 after re-drilling.
Measuring for ablation.
Total station on the western moraine.
General Photos
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Oliver next to a stake with Mt. Adams in the background.
Left: Oliver at sunrise. Right: looking down from the seracs into crevasses.
Hiram standing on top of the lower seracs.
Hiram and Dave among crevasses above the lower seracs.
Left: the sun shinging down on the mighty Eliot Glacier. Right: Hiram pointing at the mighty Eliot Glacier.
Hiram seals his approval with a kiss.