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Snowbird Glacier is a hanging alpine glacier in Alaska’s Talkeetna Mountains, set in a stark high-mountain basin of granite peaks, ice, and steep canyons. Known as a backcountry destination, it attracts skiers and snowmachiners in winter and spring and hikers and backpackers in summer and fall, and it also lies along the popular Bomber Traverse route linking remote huts. Its appeal is balanced by serious hazards, including avalanches, meltwater channels, and deep moulins. A small public shelter has strengthened its role as a recreation base: the American Alpine Club secured a permit in 2006 for a new hut above the glacier’s terminus, completed in 2010 largely by volunteers.
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Fishhook, Alaska · United States
