Silver Glacier is in

North Cascades National Park North Cascades National Park is an American national park in the state of Washington. At more than , it is the largest of the three National Park Service units that comprise the North Cascades National Park Complex. North Cascades National Par ...

in the U.S. state of

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and descends to the northwest from near the summit of

Mount Spickard Mount Spickard (pronounced SPICK' erd) is a mountain peak in the North Cascades, a mountain range in the U.S. state of Washington. Located south of the Canada–US border, it is part of the Chilliwack Group, a subrange of the Skagit Range w ...

. Silver Glacier descends from , and

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lies below the current terminus of the glacier. In 1993, Silver Glacier had an area of .49 km². The

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is currently studying Silver Glacier as part of their glacier monitoring project. Between 1993 (when monitoring began) and 2013 the glacier had lost ~8 m of thickness.

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Glaciers of the North Cascades Cirques of the United States Glaciers of Whatcom County, Washington Glaciers of Washington (state) {{Washington-glacier-stub

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