Will Colorado’s St. Mary’s Glacier become ‘un-skiable’ for the first time ever this summer? Some skiers think so

A pair of skiers hike up St. Mary’s on Aug. 2, 1960. St. Mary’s has waned and waxed in size over the years, but it’s always been skiable. By the 1950s a headline declared, “It’s (an) easy day’s drive to St. Mary’s Glacier.” A skier makes a few turns down the thin strip of St. Mary’s that remained on July 31. In the most recent edition of “Hunting Powder,” he laments that “Sadly, in the not-too-distant future, St. Mary’s Glacier will be no more.”