Lynch Glacier lies to the north and northwest of
Mount Daniel
Mount Daniel is the highest summit on the Cascade Range crest of Alpine Lakes Wilderness of the central Washington, USA. It is the highest point in King and Kittitas counties. Streams on its eastern slopes form the headwaters of the Cle Elum R ...
, in the U.S. state of
Washington
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. Lynch Glacier is within the
Alpine Lakes Wilderness
The Alpine Lakes Wilderness is a large National Wilderness Preservation System, wilderness area spanning the Central Cascades of Washington (state), Washington state in the United States. The wilderness is located in parts of Wenatchee National F ...
of
Snoqualmie National Forest Snoqualmie might refer to:
People
* Snoqualmie people, a Coast Salish people of Washington state
:*Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, a federally recognized tribe of Snoqualmie people
Places
* Snoqualmie Indian Reservation
*Snoqualmie Valley, ancestral home ...
.
The glacier is approximately in length, in width at its widest and descends from , where it terminates above a
proglacial lake
In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ...
known as Pea Soup Lake. An
arête
An arête ( ) is a narrow ridge of rock which separates two valleys. It is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys. Arêtes can also form when two glacial cirques erode headwards towards one another, although frequen ...
divides the glacier into an eastern and western lobe, with the western section being the larger.
[ In the late 1970s, Lynch Glacier extended into Pea Soup Lake; however, repeat photography indicates the glacier has since retreated above the lake.]
See also
*List of glaciers in the United States
This is a list of glaciers existing in the United States, currently or in recent centuries. These glaciers are located in nine states, all in the Rocky Mountains or farther west. The southernmost named glacier among them is the Lilliput Glacier ...
References
Glaciers of the North Cascades
Glaciers of King County, Washington
Glaciers of Washington (state)
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