Snows of Winter Past, 2011 by Jill Pelto

This image is a painting of Easton Glacier on Mt. Baker in Washington State. A graph sharply cuts across in front of the mountain — the data is the distance the Easton Glacier has retreated from 2000-2021, which is about 350 meters (~1,150 ft). Highlighted on the data line is 2011, a year of significance to the glaciers and to me. I have worked every August from 2009-2021 on the glaciers of the North Cascade mountain range in Washington. This is an incredible project my dad, Mauri Pelto, started and has led since 1983. It is called the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project. Our team works on the same group of about 10 glaciers across the range. We are measuring changes to their snow depths,...View all