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The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are not especially high – Mount Olympus is the highest summit at 7,980 ft (2,432 m); however, the eastern slopes rise precipitously out of Puget Sound from sea level, and the western slopes are separated from the Pacific Ocean by ...
Mount Constance is a peak in the Olympic Mountains of Washington and the third highest in the range. It is the most visually prominent peak on Seattle's western skyline. . Despite being almost as tall as the ice-clad Mount Olympus to the west, Mount Constance has little in the way of glaciers and permanent snow because the eastern, and particularly this northeastern, portion of the Olympics ...
Located on the Olympic Peninsula, it is also a central feature of Olympic National Park. Mount Olympus is the highest summit of the Olympic Mountains; however, peaks such as Mount Constance and The Brothers, on the eastern margin of the range, are better known, being visible from the Seattle metropolitan area.
Pages in category "Olympic Mountains" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total. ... Crystal Peak (Olympic Mountains) D. Mount Dana (Washington)
The Olympic Mountains are composed of obducted clastic wedge material and oceanic crust, primarily Eocene sandstone, turbidite, and basaltic oceanic crust. [16] The mountains were sculpted during the Pleistocene era by erosion and glaciers advancing and retreating multiple times.
Mount Lawson is part of the Olympic Mountains and set within Olympic National Park and the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness.It is located 11.18 miles (17.99 km) south-southeast of Mount Olympus and the nearest higher neighbor is Mount Zindorf, 2.49 miles (4.01 km) to the northwest.
An extinct volcano on Mars and the largest known mountain in the Solar System: Mount Olympus (Tasmania) 1,472 m or 4,829 ft Oceania: Australia: Located in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania: Mount Olympus-East Peak (Tasmania) 1,449 m or 4,754 ft
At 7,788 feet (2,374 m) high Mount Deception is the second highest peak of the Olympic Mountains, after Mount Olympus. [4] It is the highest peak of the eastern Olympics. [ 5 ] Mount Deception's prominence is 4,108 feet (1,252 m), making it the 17th most prominent peak in Washington. [ 6 ]