Bacon Peak
Bacon Peak | ||
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Bacon Peak (right in the background) and Mount Shuksan (left in the background) |
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height | 2155 m (North American Vertical Date of 1988) | |
location | Whatcom County , Washington , USA | |
Mountains | Northern Cascade Range | |
Notch height | 763 m | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 39 '46 " N , 121 ° 31' 14" W | |
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First ascent | probably 1905 by RB Robertson and Eugene Logan |
The Bacon Peak is a mountain in the Cascade Range in the State of Washington . Its glaciers cover a total of 3.2 square kilometers; the three main glaciers are Diobsud Creek Glacier (to the southeast with a width of 2.5 kilometers), the Green Lake Glacier (to the northeast with a width of 2.1 kilometers) and the Noisy Creek Glacier (to the northwest with a length of 1.4 kilometers).
Nearby peaks
- Electric butte
- Mount Watson
- Logger Butte
- Canadian bacon
- Mount Despair
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bacon . National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ↑ a b Fred Beckey: Cascade Alpine Guide: Rainy Pass to Fraser River . The Mountaineers Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59485-136-0 .
Web links
- Bacon Peak ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- Bacon Peak, Washington . PeakBagger.com. Retrieved June 7, 2011.