WASHINGTON'S HIGHEST PEAKS

with 400 Feet of Prominence                               

Peaks #61-70

Photos © John Roper 2004

<400 means this peak has less than 400-feet of prominence.

Peaks with the same elevation are given the same rank.

HORSESHOE PEAK   8480+    P80

Sahale Peak is on the left, Mount Buckner on the right, connected by Ripsaw Ridge. The original Horseshoe Peak name was applied by miners to the horseshoe-shaped summit (with the V notch) in the middle of Ripsaw Ridge above Horseshoe Basin, as shown on the 1962 Mt. Baker National Forest map. When the 1963 USGS Cascade Pass quad came out, a confused office cartographer had moved the "Horseshoe Peak" words on the map over to a non-descript rotten crag just west of Buckner. This transposition led to the inclusion of this peak on the Bulger List as it became a named summit with sufficient elevation, even though it has only 80 feet of prominence.  Many a climber has grumbled about this peculiarity, especially on this chossy pinnacle.  The case for the desirability of a one-rule Top 100 List (400-foot prominence only) is rested. 

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HORSESHOE PEAK   8480+    P80

The original maps had this name on the left, V-notched, horseshoe-shaped summit.  The 1963 USGS Cascade Pass quad moved the label to the highest right crag.  Bulgers Russ Kroeker, Bruce Gibbs, Bette Felton, and Mary Jo Gibbs made its FA on July 13, 1980.

Click here for a good close-up shot of "Bulger Horseshoe" by Paul Klenke.

MOUNT RAHM  8480+   P280

from the North on Silvertip-Rideout ridge in Canada, looking up Maselpanik Creek. Rahm is the left snow-topped summit. The map shows its barely lower right rocky top as 8480+, but the "8478" left snow summit is higher. (L) to (R) are Devils Tongue, Rahms Horn' (aka McNaught Peak'), Rahm, Ag Peak', Spickard (highest central), and Custer.

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BIG CRAGGY PEAK   8470'    P3070

from West Craggy

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HOODOO PEAK   8464'    P424

Silas Wild on traverse from Libby Peak'.

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LOST PEAK  8464'    P1624

from NW.  This was my final Bulger Big Boy on May 24, 1987, and Mike "Buffalo" Bialos finished here in 1997.  The Buff never admitted to wanting to do the Bulger List, but finally made it by continuing each year to climb the highest peak in Washington that he had not yet climbed. 

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CHIWAWA MOUNTAIN  8459'   P1219

from SE

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ARGONAUT PEAK  8453'    P733

from NW

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TOWER MOUNTAIN  8444'    P2884

Western Cwm of Tower in April

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DORADO NEEDLE    8440+    P800

The snowy right pyramid, Eldordo Peak on left.  Dorado Needle was the last Top 100 peak for John Plimpton in 1995, and Mike Torok in 2002.

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DORADO NEEDLE  8440+

from SW on The Triad

MOUNT BIGELOW   8440+    P760

from NW on Seance Peak. Glaciologist and aerial photographer Austin Post has noted that this peak's north-side, rock-covered glacier is the farthest east glacial ice in the Cascades.  He calls it Eacas Glacier, for Ea(st)cas(cade).

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LITTLE ANNAPURNA  8440+    P280

from NE, near Prusik Pass, across Perfection Lake

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SINISTER PEAK  8440+    P800

from NW, above Chickamin Glacier.  On October 4, 1980, Russ Kroeker became the first person to finish the Bulger Top 100 peaks.  He did it on Sinister.

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Winter aerial photo of Sinister by John Scurlock:  1

EMERALD PEAK  8422'    P742

on right, from SW on Saska. Bearcat Peak (L) was one of the Top 200 Peaks in Washington, but that's a whole 'nother ten years out of your life, and another USGS 15-minute to 7.5 minute alteration of the data. 

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