“It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water tower,” UO’s Leif Karlstrom, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “That there are ...

The Cascade mountain range extends for about 700 miles (1,100 kilometers) from Northern California to British Columbia, Canada, and has been built up by volcanic activity over millions of years.

Nick Drader from Compass Heli Tours runs glacier kayaking tours. He flies to a glacial lake near the Cascade Mountains in British Columbia over waterfalls, rivers, and mountains. The tours are ...