The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . Mount Hood and Hood River, seen from a point twenty miles north of the mountain. 86 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA ing. Hence it would not seem thatthese north-side glaciers have everextended much farther than they doat present. The ravine below Eliotglacier, however, half a mile fromthe snout, is said to show glacialmarkings on its rocky sides. It isevident, in any case, that the deepV cuttings now found below the gla-ciers are work of the streams. Ifthese glaciers extended farther, itwas at higher levels than their p
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . Mount Hood and Hood River, seen from a point twenty miles north of the mountain. 86 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA ing. Hence it would not seem thatthese north-side glaciers have everextended much farther than they doat present. The ravine below Eliotglacier, however, half a mile fromthe snout, is said to show glacialmarkings on its rocky sides. It isevident, in any case, that the deepV cuttings now found below the gla-ciers are work of the streams. Ifthese glaciers extended farther, itwas at higher levels than their pres-ent stream channels. As the glaciersreceded, their streams have cut thedeep gorges in the soft Eliot and Coe glaciers arelarge snow-fields, ending much fartherC^jj up than do the glaciers; and belowthese, too, the streams have trenchedthe slope (See illustration, p. 57.) Between Coe and Ladd glaciersis a high rocky ridge known as Bar-rett Spur, from which, at nearly8,000 feet, one may obtain gloriousviews of the peak above, the twoglaciers sweepi
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