Word: glaciered
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...Glacier Bay locality was first studied by John Muir about 50 years ago. The largest of the ice streams, the Muir Glacier, once visited annually by thousands of tourists, has retreated over eight miles since 1900 and now cannot be approached by a steamer of any size because of the large amount of ice floating in the channel...
...glacier at present is very 'active', that is, it is discharging ice-bergs at a tremendous rate, indicating that its rate, of shrinkage is great...
...Near the front of the Muir glacier, only recently uncovered, are the remains of a pre-glacial forest which was destroyed and covered up by the advancing ice several hundred years...
...Strangely enough, within 50 in lees of Glacier Bay, across a huge mountain are two as yet unnamed glaciers which show definite signs of having advanced during the last few years. Several clumps of trees standing in the way of one of these advancing glaciers are being slowly invaded, snapped off, and buried...
...Another object of the expedition than the recording of glacial changes, was the studying of possible routes of ascent of the peaks of the Fairweather Range, situated near Glacier Bay. These mountains present a large field for mountaineering, one that will not be exhausted for years to come. The higher peaks culminating in Mr. Fairweather, 15,400 feet in height are without exception very difficult of ascent...