Mount Angeles

Mount Angeles is located just south of Port Angeles, Washington in the Olympic National Park. It is the highest peak in the Hurricane Ridge area. The summit, which offers panoramic views of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and many of the peaks of the interior Olympic Mountains can be climbed from the Klahane Ridge trail.[3]

Mount Angeles
Highest point
Elevation6,454 ft (1,967 m)  NGVD 29[1]
Prominence1,614 ft (492 m) [1]
Coordinates47°59′43″N 123°28′00″W [2]
Geography
Parent rangeOlympic Mountains
Topo mapUSGS Mount Angeles
Climbing
Easiest routeExposed Scramble, grade II, class 3-4

The southeast side of Mount Angeles drains into Morse Creek, thence into the Strait of Juan de Fuca a couple of miles east of Port Angeles. The northeast side of Mount Angeles drains into Ennis Creek, thence into Port Angeles Harbor. The north and west sides of Mount Angeles drain into the South Branch of Little River, thence into the Juan de Fuca Strait via the Elwha River, whose mouth is located in the Lower Elwha Indian Reservation, a few miles west of Port Angeles.

Climate

Mount Angeles is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America.[4]

Mt. Angeles in winter

Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel northeast toward the Olympic Mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks of the Olympic Range, causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall (Orographic lift). As a result, the Olympics experience high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall.[4] During winter months, weather is usually cloudy, but, due to high pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer months, there is often little or no cloud cover during the summer.

Geology

The Olympic Mountains are composed of obducted clastic wedge material and oceanic crust, primarily Eocene sandstone, turbidite, and basaltic oceanic crust.[5] The mountains were sculpted during the Pleistocene era by erosion and glaciers advancing and retreating multiple times.

See also

References
  1. "Mount Angeles, Washington". Peakbagger.com.
  2. "Mount Angeles". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  3. "Mount Angeles, East Ridge". ClimbingWashington.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
  4. McNulty, Tim (2009). Olympic National Park: A Natural History. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press.
  5. Alt, D.D.; Hyndman, D.W. (1984). Roadside Geology of Washington. pp. 249–259. ISBN 0-87842-160-2.
  • Mount Angeles summit. Notice the steeply tilted layers of ocean floor sediments
  • Mount Angeles from Eagle Point


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