This is How Current Glacier Health and the Future of Year-Round Skiing in the Oregon Cascades Looks - SnowBrains

"In the dark, packs are checked, breakfast is hastily consumed, and routes are looked over one more time by headlamp before starting the long ascent to the snow line. Few are around to see dim silhouettes trudge uphill, skis A-framed to their packs and hiking boots kicking up dust as the most devoted of us start their climb into the high alpine."

"The study, written by Anders Carlson and a team of climate researchers, uses the categories of "retreating," "critically endangered," "almost disappeared," and "disappeared" to chart the impacted glaciers. They note that, out of the 34 glaciers that existed in the Oregon Cascades in 2000, 15% have gone extinct, 12% are predicted to disappear in the next few years, and 24% will disappear by 2050. These changes are attributed"

Thirty-four glaciers in the Oregon Cascades were monitored over five years of field observations. Five glaciers have disappeared, four have almost disappeared, and eight are critically endangered. These severe impacts account for half of the named glaciers in the range. Some affected glaciers are prominent, including Zigzag Glacier on Mt. Hood, while others like Crook Glacier in Central Oregon persist only marginally and feed Tumalo Creek, the source of Bend's drinking water. Out of the glaciers present in 2000, 15% have gone extinct, 12% are predicted to disappear soon, and 24% are projected to vanish by 2050.

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