The 1980 eruption that blew the top off Mount St. Helens also destroyed its 13 glaciers, but by 1982, the crater floor had cooled enough to allow snow to begin to stick.

Nestled between North Sister and Mount Washington 10 miles west of Sisters, Black Crater is a lesser-known hiking spot in Central Oregon.

Buried beneath a half mile of snow and ice in Greenland, scientists have uncovered an impact crater large enough to swallow the District of Columbia. Ice Age Asteroid Crater Discovered Beneath ...

The glacier water feeds down into Crater Ditch Creek along the route. The scenic overlook offers a beautiful view of the Deschutes National Forest and the Three Sisters Wilderness.

To confirm their suspicions, in May 2016 the team sent a research plane from Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute to fly over the Hiawatha Glacier and map the crater and the overlying ice with a ...