Terminus: Ferry Glacier by Bailey Thomas

Honoring a Glacier

The following is an animation by Bailey Thomas, in honor of Ferry Glacier. It was created as part of the Terminus glacier project.

 

 

Duration:

47.417 seconds

"Only 40 years ago, Ferry Glacier was one of the many large glaciers that sustain and protect the Olympic Mountains ecosystem. Although it is no longer a mass of ice coexisting with mastodons, it's left its mark and the water remains. Life in other forms continues. However, the glaciers are a signifier of balance, and so we should expect their melting to sculpt our lives as much as their formation did." -Bailey Thomas

More art from the Olympic Terminus project

 

 

Meet the Artist: Bailey Thomas

"I'm Bailey Jean Thomas and I'm a visual artist trying to find the place where the unknown meets the familiar. I used mixed media, drawing, and animation to process my fears of the world outside of my body and within. My work has been published in Artist Talk Magazine, Best American Comics and The Paris Review. Follow me on Instagram: @capybailey or visit my website: baileyjeanthomas.com"

 

More about Ferry Glacier

As late as 1982, this glacier, deep in the remote Bailey Range was one of the larger glaciers in the Park. By 2009, it had disappeared completely, leaving behind a glacial tarn to occupy its cirque. Climbers commonly refer to the former glacier as Ice Lake, in Ferry Basin.

Its exact location is a west-facing slope of Mount Ferry in the Bailey Range of the Olympic Mountains, at longitude: -123.575651, latitude: 47.837670. Ferry Glacier’s (now Ice Lake’s) meltwaters feed into the Hoh River, which flows from the heart of the Olympic Peninsula down through the Hoh Rainforest and beyond before reaching the Pacific Ocean.

 

More Please

Learn more about Olympic's glaciers and our changing climate here.

Discover more from the Terminus glacier project here.