Mount Fitzhenry

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Mount Fitzhenry
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Mount Fitzhenry from Hurricane Ridge
Highest point
Elevation 6,050 ft (1,840 m) [1]
Prominence 450 ft (140 m) [1]
Parent peak Mount Fairchild (6,925 ft) [2]
Isolation 1.57 mi (2.53 km) [2]
Coordinates 47°55′22″N123°37′50″W / 47.92273°N 123.63047°W / 47.92273; -123.63047 [1]
Geography
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Mount Fitzhenry
Location of Mount Fitzhenry in Washington
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Mount Fitzhenry
Mount Fitzhenry (the United States)
Location Olympic National Park
Clallam County, Washington, US
Parent range Olympic Mountains
Topo map USGS Mount Carrie
Geology
Rock age Eocene
Climbing
Easiest route class 2 hiking [3] north ridge

Mount Fitzhenry is a 6,050-foot (1,840-metre) mountain summit located within Olympic National Park in Clallam County of Washington state. [4] Mt. Fitzhenry is in the Bailey Range, which is a subrange of the Olympic Mountains. The mountain can be seen from the visitor center at Hurricane Ridge in clear weather. Its nearest higher neighbor is Mount Fairchild, 1.57 mi (2.53 km) to the south. [1] Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Elwha River. Mount Fitzhenry is situated at the head of Fitzhenry Creek, and both are named for Edward Allen Fitzhenry (1868–1937), Clallam County surveyor from 1892-1900. [5] President Woodrow Wilson appointed Fitzhenry as Washington Surveyor General in 1913, and he later served as Deputy State Land Commissioner. [6]

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Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Fitzhenry is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America. [7] 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. During winter, weather is usually cloudy, but, due to high-pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer, there is often little or no cloud cover during the summer. In terms of favorable weather, the best months for viewing and climbing are July through September.

Geology

The Olympic Mountains are composed of obducted clastic wedge material and oceanic crust, primarily Eocene sandstone, turbidite, and basaltic oceanic crust. [8] The mountains were sculpted during the Pleistocene era by erosion and glaciers advancing and retreating multiple times.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mount Fitzhenry". Peakbagger.com.
  2. 1 2 "Fitzhenry, Mount - 6,075' WA". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ climbersguideolympics.com Mount Fitzhenry
  4. ↑ "Mount Fitzhenry". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  5. ↑ Parratt, Smitty (1984). Gods and Goblins: A Field Guide to Place Names of Olympic National Park (1st ed.).
  6. ↑ https://www.olsonengr.com/download/globios/fitzhenryedwardabio2.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  7. ↑ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . ISSN   1027-5606. S2CID   9654551.
  8. ↑ Alt, D.D.; Hyndman, D.W. (1984). Roadside Geology of Washington. Mountain Press Publishing Company. pp. 249–259. ISBN   0-87842-160-2.
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