Bacon Peak Falls is a unofficially-named

waterfall A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...

on an unnamed stream that feeds remote Green Lake in

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, in the

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.Northwest Waterfall Survey: Bacon Peak Falls
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meltwater Meltwater is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans. Meltwater is often found in the ablation zone of glaciers, where the rate of snow cover is reducing. Meltwater can be ...

stream from

Green Lake Glacier Green Lake Glacier is in North Cascades National Park in the U.S. state of Washington and is immediately northeast of Bacon Peak. Green Lake Glacier descends from a ridge extending from the east of Bacon Peak. The glacier forms two tongues descend ...

. The meltwater from the glacier settles in a small tarn often known as "Bacon Lake" before dropping over the falls which flow almost directly into the far end of Green Lake.

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