Photo courtesy of Debra Austin. A massive blue glacier full of crevices.

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Glaciers
Mother Nature's bulldozer has done more to shape the North American Continent than any other single geological factor and we have lots of them. Surrounding the 11,700 foot Monarch Mountain is the Monarch Icefield, a favorite for flightseeing visitors, and just south of that is the Ha-Iltzuk Icefield, the largest icefield in the Coast Mountain Range south of the Alaskan Panhandle. Back to Sightseeing

 
Photo courtesy of Debra Austin. Two blue glaciers flow up and over a rock.

Two glaciers flowing over a rock


 
Photo courtesy of Debra Austin. A wide blue glacier full of crevices flows toward the valley below.

A wide blue river of ice


 
Photo courtesy of Debra Austin. Two glaciers move toward each other.

These twin glaciers meet at a lake


Photo courtesy of Debra Austin. A bowl at the top of a mountain has been carved out by the glacier that still fills it.

A circque created by a glacier


 
Photo courtesy of Debra Austin. Steep peaks surround the glacier that carved them.

A steep glacial flow


 
Photo courtesy of Debra Austin. A stream flows out of the base of the glacier.

Like most, this glacier feeds a stream


Photo courtesy of Miriam Schilling. A ring of peaks surround a bowl of ice that have carved them.

This thick glacier has carved out these peaks


 
Photo courtesy of Miriam Schilling. A wide glacier flows down a steep mountainside.

River of ice flows steeply downhill


 
Photo courtesy of Miriam Schilling. Great chunks of ice split as they move over rocks.

Ice breaking as it flows over rocks underneath