Blue Glacier Then & Now Image Pairs : 1982 and 2022

Snow fields between 5,000 - 5,600 feet northwest of the Blue Glacier

Blue Glacier looking toward Glacier Pass (aka “the saddle”)

Looking south up the Blue Glacier from its terminus

Looking northwest from the lateral moraine across the terminus of the Blue Glacier

Looking up to the summit of Mt. Olympus from the lateral moraine close to the terminus of the Blue Glacier

The Blue Glacier has not only reseeded significantly in the past 40 years, but it has lost ~100 feet of thickness at its terminus.

Satellite imagery taken form Google Earth of the terminus of the Blue Glacier from 1990 and 2022. In that time the terminus has retreated by over 1,100 feet and the width of the glacier has contracted by approximately 700 feet. Additionally, the whole glacier has lost a great deal of thickness. I estimate that it has lost ~100 feet of thickness since I saw it in 1982.