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which lies to its north just below the summit of Glacier Peak. As is true with all the glaciers found on Glacier Peak, Cool Glacier is retreating. Cool Glacier retreated approximately 1,500 m (4,900 ft) between 1850 and 1946, however during a cooler and wetter period from about 1950 to
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1979, the glacier advanced. Since then Cool Glacier resumed retreating and by 2005 the glacier was within 40 m (130 ft) of its minimum length recorded in 1946.
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Left to right, Cool, Chocolate, North Guardian and Dusty Glaciers on the east slopes of Glacier Peak
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The Cool Glacier was given its name in 1906 by mountaineer
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Map showing the location of Cool Glacier
Glacier Peak
Snohomish County, Washington
USA
Coordinates
48°06′28″N 121°06′07″W / 48.10778°N 121.10194°W / 48.10778; -121.10194
Glacier Peak
U.S. state
Washington
Chocolate Glacier
Claude Ewing Rusk
List of glaciers in the United States
"Cool Glacier"
Geographic Names Information System
United States Geological Survey
United States Department of the Interior
Glacier Peak East, WA
The Changing Earth: Exploring Geology and Evolution
ISBN
9780840062086
"Glacier Peak A Century Of Change"
the original
Exploring Washington
ISBN
978-0-918664-00-6
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glacier
Washington
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