Glacier Peak
— the volcano almost no road can see.
Not only on a wall.
Glacier Peak, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“The most remote of Washington's five major volcanoes, rising to 10,541 feet in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. No paved road reaches it. The shortest approach walks in twenty-some miles from the Suiattle River trailhead, through hemlock and cedar and over the white passes above the Sauk drainage. Climbers come for the ice; everyone else comes for the silence the long approach buys. From most lowland viewpoints the peak hides behind closer ridges, which is half the reason it stayed quiet in the public mind even after it last blew ash across the basin about 13,000 years ago. — from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Glacier Peak is an active stratovolcano in the North Cascades of Washington State, rising to 10,541 feet within the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the Mount Baker–Snoqualmie National Forest. It is one of five major volcanoes in the state and, geologically, one of the most explosive in the Cascade arc. Despite that history, it is the least visible of the five from populated lowlands, screened by ridgelines on every side. The summit sits in Snohomish County, far from any paved road; the nearest trailheads lie east of Darrington and west of Lake Chelan, each reached by long forest-road drives.
The 566,000-acre Glacier Peak Wilderness was designated by Congress in 1964 and is one of the largest wilderness areas in the lower forty-eight. There are no roads, no permanent structures, and no motorised access inside its boundary. The Pacific Crest Trail traverses the eastern flank of the mountain, and through-hikers who reach this section in late August often describe it as the loneliest week of the trail. Ten named glaciers cling to the upper slopes, the Honeycomb and the Cool the largest among them, and meltwater feeds the Suiattle and Chiwawa Rivers below.
The standard climbing window runs from late June through early September, when the snow bridges over the lower crevasses are still continuous and the road to the Suiattle trailhead is open. The most travelled route up the Sitkum Glacier requires a 20-plus-mile approach with about 7,000 feet of gain, almost always done as a multi-day trip with a high camp at Boulder Basin. The 2003 floods washed out the Suiattle River Road for years and reshaped the approach permanently. Snow begins again on the upper mountain in October.
