Where's the snow?

This is a view of Hurricane Ridge last week, 5,500 feet up in the Olympic Mountains. There's hardly any snow on the ground! From December to March, Hurricane Ridge is usually buried under feet of snow.

The snow pack is also below average in the Cascade Mountains. It's been a dismal ski season up there. And if we don't get some snow soon, it will be dismal season for watering the garden. The majority of our municipal water comes from snow, not rain. Please send your extra white stuff west. 

The pictures below are from a MOHAI photograph collection showing Mt. Rainier in a snowier time, circa 1910. 

The summit

 Nisqually Glacier crevasses

Summer hiking, circa 1910

Summer 2014

Is it my imagination, or are the glaciers smaller?