Klickitat Glacier | |
Type: | Mountain glacier |
Location: | Mount Adams, Yakima County, Washington, USA |
Map: | USA Washington#USA |
Label Position: | right |
Map Size: | 225 |
Coordinates: | 46.1892°N -121.4661°W |
Coordinates Ref: | [1] |
Area: | 2.93sqkm in 2006 |
Length: | 2miles |
Terminus: | Talus |
Status: | Retreating |
Klickitat Glacier is located on the east slopes of Mount Adams a stratovolcano in the U.S. state of Washington. Though within the Mount Adams Wilderness, the glacier is situated within the boundaries of the Yakama Indian Reservation.[2] The glacier descends from approximately 12000feet to a terminus near 7200feet below which an old lateral moraine once was the northern margin of the glacier.[2] Klickitat Glacier has been in a general state of retreat for over 100 years and lost 46 percent of its surface area between 1904 and 2006.[3]
Piker's Peak is on the upper boundary of Klickitat Glacier.