Images of the Blue Glacier

The images below were taken during the summer of 1982 on and around the Blue Glacier in Olympic National Park. During an expedition in the summer of 2022 I will return to the glacier forty year to the week to recreate these images. The resulting pairs of images will matted and framed together providing a visual record of the changes to the glacier over the intervening four decades.

The Snow Dome as seen from the Hoh River trail below Glacier Meadows - Shot 01

Blue Glacier seen from the end of the lateral moraine near the terminus in 1982. - Shot 03

Snow field above Glacier Meadows campsite. - Shot 02

Looking up at the Snow Dome and the peaks of Mt. Olympus - Shot 05

Looking northeast across the glacier with the lateral moraine in the background. - Shot 06

View across Blue Glacier toward Glacier Pass. - Shot 04

View northwest down the glacier toward its terminus. - Shot 07

 

View from Glacier Pass northwest toward the Snow Dome. - Shot 08

View of the terminus of the Blue Glacier. - Shot 09

 

Looking north from Glacier Pass down across the length of Blue Glacier. - Shot11

Looking north over the terminus of Blue Glacier with the end of the lateral moraine to the right. - Shot10

Looking up toward the summit of Mt. Olympus from the Blue Glacier. - Shot 12


Approximate locations from which the photos shown above were taken in 1982 (image taken frame Google Maps).