White Salmon Glacier | |
Type: | Mountain glacier |
Location: | Mount Adams, Yakima County, Washington, USA |
Map: | USA Washington#USA |
Label Position: | right |
Map Size: | 225 |
Coordinates: | 46.1997°N -121.5028°W |
Coordinates Ref: | [1] |
Area: | 0.51sqkm in 2006 |
Length: | 0.6miles |
Terminus: | Icefall |
Status: | Retreating |
White Salmon Glacier is located on Mount Adams in the U.S. state of Washington. The glacier starts southwest of the summit crater at an elevation of 11600feet. Ice flows southwest downhill until the glacier's terminus at about 9600feet elevation.[2] The glacier also contributes ice to the much larger Avalanche Glacier at an elevation of 10200feet. White Salmon Glacier has decreased in surface area by 86 percent between 1904 and 2006.[3]