#glaicers

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Landscape Language

Cirque (noun) – a bowl-shaped hollow occurring at the upper end of a mountain valley

The smallest glaciers on Mount Rainier are cirque glaciers. These small glaciers occupy a bowl-shaped basin, called a cirque, at the head of a mountain valley. Cirque glaciers are usually the remnants of much larger valley glaciers. Examples of this type of glacier on Mount Rainier are the South Tahoma and Inter glaciers. The Inter Glacier, pictured, is a small cirque glacier between the Emmons and Winthrop Glacier. Have you seen or visited this glacier during a visit to the Sunrise area of the park?

NPS Photo of the Inter Glacier, 2014. ~kl

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...and I flew away to the sheep and horses.  We saw the same glaciers we had hiked on for the past six days, only this time from a birds-eye view which is funny because there are no birds in this valley. 

Everything looked so small from the chopper. There were times during the trek, though, that I wandered for hours at a time.  

The viewing Room

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