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Olympic National Park, Washington · USA
Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus is the highest and most glaciated peak of Washington's Olympic Mountains, remarkable for sitting barely 30 miles from saltwater yet carrying one of the largest glacier systems in the contiguous United States thanks to the extraordinary snowfall dumped by Pacific storms. Reaching it is as much an expedition as a climb: a multi-day approach through the temperate Hoh Rainforest precedes a genuine glacier ascent across the crevassed Blue Glacier to a short, exposed rock scramble on the summit block. Because its true high point, the West Peak, sits slightly higher than the more accessible East and Middle Peaks, early explorers repeatedly climbed the 'wrong' summit before the true top was confirmed. It remains a serious, committing objective prized by Pacific Northwest mountaineers.
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