Deming Glacier lies on Mount Baker’s southwest slopes in Washington’s North Cascades, between Easton Glacier and the Black Buttes ridge. Its recent history mirrors wider glacial change in the Cascades: it retreated 7,217 feet between 1850 and 1950, advanced 2,060 feet during a cooler, wetter period from 1950 to 1979, then retreated another 1,140 feet between 1980 and 2006. The glacier was named for the town of Deming, whose residents built a trail to Mount Baker in 1909. As one of Mount Baker’s named ice bodies, it is tied both to the mountain’s changing environment and to local efforts to reach it.