Oregon Field Guide

Return To Mount Hood's Glacier Caves

By Ed Jahn (OPB)
Mount Hood, Oregon Feb. 16, 2017 8:43 p.m.

The spectacular glacier caves that "Oregon Field Guide" documented in 2013 have all but disappeared.

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But why? Is it global warming, or is something else at play?

"Oregon Field Guide" returns to the dangerous backcountry slopes of Mount Hood with a team of scientists to investigate. New passages have formed within the ice and with new technology, science is revealing some surprising new information about what causes glacier caves to form.


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