Dinwoody Glaciers, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming; with a Brief Survey of Existing Glaciers in the United States

Abstract

Introduction Of the large number of active glaciers present in the higher mountains of the western United States few are several miles in length, forming parts of rather extensive glacier systems, but most of them are small—not more than 2 or 3 square miles in surface area—and but little, if any, greater in length than in width. Probably most of them are essentially cliff glaciers,[2][1] and move only very short distances down from the basin of snow accumulation. Some of the larger systems, such as those of Mount Rainier and Glacier National Park, are now well known, but others, especially the smaller ones in districts which have not been geologically mapped, are but little known except to local hunters and sportsmen. Those of the Wind River Range, including the Dinwoody glaciers here described, have been known for many years, and they are shown on the Fremont Peak topographic . . . [1]: #fn-1