Easton Glacier

Easton Glacier is a major alpine glacier on Mount Baker’s south face in Washington, between the Squak and Deming glaciers. Named for Charles F. Easton of Bellingham, it begins near Sherman Crater at about 9,000 feet and descends to around 5,500 feet. Its edges formed two notably distinct lateral moraines, Metcalfe Moraine and Railroad Grade, while the valley below preserves polished andesite, scattered boulders, and glacial striations left by the moving ice. The glacier also illustrates long-term change on Mount Baker: it retreated 7,940 feet from 1850 to 1950, advanced 1,995 feet from 1950 to 1979, then retreated again in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Washington · United States