WASHINGTON'S HIGHEST PEAKS

with 400 feet of Prominence                                

Peaks # 81-90

Photos © John Roper 2004

NB/e: Ballard is not on Bulger List because of a map error. Ballard elevation is an estimate.

Peaks with the same elevation are given the same rank.

LAKE MOUNTAIN  8371'    P811

from NE, on way to Lost.  Lake of the Woods lies in left basin.

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GOLDEN HORN  8366'    P1126

from Tower.  Gabriel and Elija on left.

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Winter photo of Golden Horn by John Scurlock:  1

WEST CRAGGY  8366'    P686

from NE on North Craggy

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MOUNT SAINT HELENS  8365'    P4605

Post-eruptive Mount Saint Helens from SW, Goat Marsh Lake

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McCLELLAN PEAK  8364'     P1244

from NE on Wedge Mountain.  Snow Lakes in foreground. Little Annapurna (R).

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DEVORE PEAK  8360+    P1720

from NE on Tupshin. Bird Lakes at base. Bonanza to right.

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Russ Kroeker displays the historic Devore Peak FA register from Saturday, July 28, 1940.

AMPHITHEATER MOUNTAIN  8358'    P758

from East on Apex Mountain

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SNOWFIELD PEAK  8347'    P2907

from NE, on Colonial.  Neve Glacier dominates the scene. In retrospect, this was my first Top 100 Peak, done on July 4, 1965 with medical school classmate, Joel Wilson (Jay) Baker, Jr.  Snowfield was the first summit that Gary Mellom and I ever climbed together (September 3, 1966), and it was also the first peak that Russ Kroeker and I teamed up on (June 7, 1980).  Russ introduced me to the Top 100 List here, and that year became the first person to finish all 100 Big Boys, six years before the second to complete.  We came up the ridge between Ladder Creek and the Skagit River from Newhalem, climbed Snowfield, and exited down Neve Creek to Thunder River (Creek).  Not a lot of traffic on those routes.

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Winter photos of Snowfield by John Scurlock:  1   2

MOUNT BALLARD  8340'    P780

from East

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The north summit of Ballard shown here is surveyed at 8301 feet.  This photo was taken from the clearly higher southern "8280+" contour (per map) summit, so the true summit of Ballard is now estimated at about 8340 feet, awaiting an accurate measurement.  I was going to call it 8350, but that would rank it higher than Snowfield, and I wasn't going to do that to a Backyard peak.

AUSTERA PEAK  8334'   P414

on left from South on The Smokestack' with John Burroughs.  Primus Peak center and Jack behind.

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