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There are no glaciers in Glacier. In fact, you can’t even see any ice sheets from the center of town, though some nearby viewpoints afford a look at the snowy top of Mount Baker, about 10 miles to the southeast. The North Fork of the Nooksack River tumbles through the hamlet—population 188—and surrounding second-growth forest, and some of that water is certainly melted ice. But the town of Glacier has one thing going for it that few actual glaciers do: it’s growing.
As Lilliputian as it may be, Glacier has held an outsize place
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