Just outside of Idaho Springs, Colorado—over 10,000 feet above sea level—lies a pristine alpine lake. While Saint Mary’s Lake is beautiful, most visitors to this area are looking for something a little bit further up the trail: a small, somewhat dirty patch of snow, known as Saint Mary’s Glacier. Despite its name, it isn’t a glacier at all. A true glacier is defined as a mass of ice and rock that moves downhill under its own weight. While slow, they are also very powerful, stripping away the earth beneath them…
