7-536: Carrie Glacier is located on Mount Carrie and Mount Fairchild in the Olympic Mountains of Olympic National Park . Starting at an elevation of about 6,800 feet (2,100 m), the glacier descends northward, but the ice soon reaches a cliff. Part of the Carrie Glacier plunges over the steep rockwall, contributing ice to an adjacent glacier, while the other section flows north-northeast, avoiding
14-476: A good eye and clear weather, the mountain can be seen from the visitor center at Hurricane Ridge . Its nearest higher peak is Mount Mathias (7,156 ft) which is an outlier of Mount Olympus , 6.24 mi (10.04 km) to the south. Due to heavy winter snowfalls, Mount Carrie supports the Carrie Glacier in its northeast cirque, and Fairchild Glacier on the east slope. Precipitation runoff from
21-733: A trail in Soleduck Valley. This article about a glacier in Washington is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mount Carrie Mount Carrie is a 6,995-foot (2,132-metre) mountain summit located within Olympic National Park in Clallam County of Washington state. Mt. Carrie is the highest point in the Bailey Range which is a subrange of the Olympic Mountains . With
28-597: The marine west coast climate zone of western North America . Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean , and travel northeast toward the Olympic Mountains . As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks of the Olympic Range, causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall ( Orographic lift ). As a result, the Olympics experience high precipitation, especially during
35-597: The mountain drains into tributaries of the Elwha River and Hoh River . There is a scrambling route via the High Divide Trail and Cat Walk. The Olympic Peninsula was largely unmapped until surveyors Arthur Dodwell and Theodore Rixon mapped most of its topography between 1898 and 1900, and what is now Mt. Carrie, was in 1899 one of the last remaining unnamed mountains in the Olympic range. The mountain
42-493: The precipitous drop. This segment of ice is confined by an arête to the west and Mount Fairchild to the east in a chute . The glacier reaches as low as 5,000 ft (1,500 m) before terminating. There are several other patches of snow and glaciers located nearby, such as the Fairchild Glacier . Mount Carrie and Carrie Glacier were named by surveyor Theodore Rixon for his fiancée Caroline Jones whom he met on
49-452: Was named by Theodore Rixon for his wife Caroline "Carrie" (Jones) Rixon. Carrie Rixon was a noted artist, painter, singer, and taught music to children. The Rixons lived at a 160-acre homestead she called Fairholme at the west end of Lake Crescent , until they moved to Teahwhit Head in 1916. Carrie died on May 20, 1946. Based on the Köppen climate classification , Mount Carrie is located in
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