Palmer Glacier

Palmer was a small glacier on the south face of Mt. Hood where it flowed over debris flows from the last major eruption of Mt. Hood ~1500 years ago. It likely began as a snowfield that thickened into a glacier. In 1981, the U.S.G.S. determined it reached over 200 feet thick. By the mid 1980s, evidence for ice flow was absent, meaning the glacier died in the 1980s.