Mossback's Northwest: Historic glacier photos hint at the future

Mossback's Northwest: Historic glacier photos hint at the future

Once upon a time mountain glaciers were associated with the ultimate wilderness experience: Massive ice sheets that moved slowly– grinding down mountainsides, unleashing torrents of wild water to the lowlands, calving into fjords.They were--and are--shapers of landscapes, scenic too. Today, we tend to see them as frozen yardsticks of climate change and planetary health. But in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the lure of glaciers attracted adv…