Glacier Peak rises above the forested slopes of the Suiattle River valley in this east side view from Buck Creek Pass. It has had frequent powerful explosive eruptions that deposited ash and pumice over wide areas, and produced pyroclastic flows and lahars that traveled long distances A recent eruption occurred only a few hundred years ago.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1985 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Glacier Peak