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Grid points with less than 30% of sampled ice are shown as grey. Map design and data provided by Brian Menounos, adapted from this article using map outlines from Simplemaps.
Floyd has been flying over the Coast Mountains for years, and describes the sight, now commonplace, of remote, nameless mountain basins of bare rock with cerulean-blue lakes at the base, bereft of ice that once clung to the edges year-round. He says on Vancouver Island where he lives, there are also multiple examples of small glaciers, like the Comox glacier, which are “ready to wink out” in the near future.
“Many of these smaller glaciers,” he says, “won’t last 20 years.”