WASHINGTON'S HIGHEST PEAKS

with 400 Feet of Prominence                               

Peaks #51-60

Photos © John Roper 2004

e:  errors on current 7.5-minute USGS maps. See discussion below.

RAVEN RIDGE (LIBBY PEAK)  8580'     P1100

This view from Hoodoo Peak suggests that the 8572' summit on the left is higher than the 8580' summit on the far right that the map recommends. This was noted in 1985.  Don Duncan, in a report to the Mountaineers, measured and estimated that the east (L) "8572" summit was 17-feet higher than the 8580 Libby (R) summit.  On May 28, 2004, Jim Brisbine confirmed to himself by pocket transit that the 8572' point on Raven Ridge ("Corax Peak" to some, after the genus name for raven) was higher than 8580 Libby (after the lake below).  Better do them both nowadays.

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BUCK MOUNTAIN  8528+    P1888

from NW.  The highest point is a rounded 8520+/actually 8528+ summit, hidden in this photo by the slightly lower sharp 8528-foot Buck horn, topping the elegant North Arete.  Our 2004 finisher, Dave Stephens, completed the Bulger List here.

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STORM KING  8520+    P600

from NE.  3500 vertical feet on entertainment from the bottom. This is where Don Goodman finished the Bulger List in 1998.

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ENCHANTMENT PEAKS  8520(+)    P480

from SW on Dragontail. The highest point on Enchantment Peaks is the NE summit, the left rock knob here, shown as a precise "8520" on the 1961 15-minute USGS Mount Stuart quad that the original Bulgers used.  This map showed the SW crags (on right) as three separate 8480+ contours. When the 1989 7.5-minute USGS Enchantment Lakes quad came out it mistakenly drew the SW crags as two 8480+ contours and a single 8520+ contour, and the NE (true) summit as the 8480+ contour. 

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REYNOLDS PEAK  8512'    P2032

from NNE on Abernathy

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MARTIN PEAK  8511    P2111

from West, at base of Mary Green Glacier camp on Bonanza

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Ida Zacher Darr soloed the first ascent of Martin in July 1936 when she was 24 years old.  This is the year she married Everett Darr.  They returned in 1940 to make the FAs of Tupshin and Devore, and several other peaks in the area.  This photo was taken at her home in Oregon in 1991 at the age of 79 (b. 1912).

PRIMUS PEAK  8508   P828

on left from NW, near Isolation

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View from space

DARK PEAK  8504'    P264

from North.  Dark is a Bulger peak with <400 feet of prominence, but an interesting, remote, and recommended adventure, approaching via Swamp Creek below.  SW Bonanza is off to the left. Glacier Peak on right.  Dark was Silas Wild's last Big Boy in 1987.

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MOX PEAKS, SE (aka Hard Mox, SE TWIN SPIRE)  8504'    P904

East Face, from Perry Creek.  This is the greatest face in the North Cascades, with 2500 vertical feet of relief, and still yet unclimbed in 2004. (Update: this route was finally finished--to right of central shadow--on the FA of this ESE summit of Mox on 9/13/2008 by Rolf Larson and Eric Wehrly.) Hard Mox was the final Bulger peak for Bob Tillotson, followed by Bette Felton, the first woman to complete, two weeks later in 1986.

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Winter aerial photos of the Moxs by John Scurlock:  1  2  3

View from space

Fred and Helmy Beckeys' original June 22, 1941 first ascent register,

where it should be, on the top of the mountain they climbed.

CASHMERE MOUNTAIN  8501'    P1581

from North

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KLAWATTI PEAK  8485'    P685

from the Klawatti Glacier.  This beauty is totally surrounded by ice.  Glaciologist Dick Hubley was so impressed with the icy white blanket here that he applied the Chinook name "Kahloke" for "swan" to this glacier.  Austin Post "polished" Kahloke a bit to the "more unique and attractive Klawatti."

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Winter aerial photo of Klawatti by John Scurlock:  1

View from space

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