The Nisqually Glacier flows from the summit of Mount Rainier, with its rock-strewn terminus visible above the left valley wall and its presence evident below in the debris-strewn path, exposed rock on the upper valley walls, and meltwater issuing from the glacier’s terminus. Like Mount Rainier’s twenty-six named glaciers, the Nisqually is in constant flux, melting back or advancing as rapidly as three feet per day. Recent evidence suggested that the Nisqually Glacier might advance and again become visible from this overlook. The glacier’s recession was first noticed by the Longmire school in 1904. Members of the Longmire household, who were accustomed to obtaining ice from the glacier for preserving perishable foods, found that they had to travel farther each year to reach it. In 1912 the Nisqually Glacier extended almost as far as the present highway bridge.