Blue Glacier’s Change Over the Past 40 Years

March 21, 6:30PM on Zoom, RSVP here

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Glaciers are the spring of life for the valleys below and one of our planet’s key indicators of a changing climate.  In 2022, father-son duo Chip and Will Freund set out to document how one specific glacier has changed in our lifetime for their project, Blue Glacier Then & Now.

This story starts in 1982 when Chip was just 18 years old, and he was spending his summer working for the Student Conservation Association doing backcountry trail work in Olympic National Park in Washington State. During that summer, Chip took dozens of pictures of the environment he was working in, including the mighty Blue Glacier that feeds the park’s Hoh River. With all the talk around climate change these days, Chip set out to tell his climate story by heading back to Olympic National Park 40 years to the week when he was there last to recreate the photos he took and show how the Blue Glacier had been affected by climate change in the intervening four decades.
Chip is a professional landscape photographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina and Will is an environmental documentary filmmaker based in Greensboro, NC.

Sierra Club

Presented by the North Olympic Group of the Sierra Club
Peter Guerrero — Organizer