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White River Glacier
White River Glacier is a long, narrow glacier on the southwest side of Mt. Hood that feeds White River. The glacier flows in a deep canyon just to the east of the debris flows from the last major eruption of Mt. Hood ~1500 years ago; this canyon traps windblown snow, allowing the glacier to persist despite disappearance of the adjacent Palmer Glacier and near stagnation of Zigzag Glacier.
Information
Latitude: 45.353
Longitude: -121.697
Aspect: 157.2
Head (m asl) 1950s: 3110
Terminus (m asl) 1950s: 1880
Area (km^2) 1950s: 1.218
Head (m asl) 2020s: 2880
Terminus (m asl) 2020s: 2240
Area (km^2) 2020s: 0.271
Status: active
Last observation: 2021
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