Kyes Peak

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Kyes Peak
Blanca Lake with the Columbia Glacier, Monte Cristo Peak and Kyes Peak (in the background from left to right), view to the north [1]

The Blanca Lake with the Columbia Glacier , the Monte Cristo Peak and Kye's Peak in the background (from left to right), looking north

height 2219  m (Sea Level Date of 1929)
location Snohomish County , Washington , USA
Mountains Cascade chain
Notch height 524 m
Coordinates 47 ° 57 '53 "  N , 121 ° 20' 0"  W Coordinates: 47 ° 57 '53 "  N , 121 ° 20' 0"  W.
Kyes Peak (Washington)
Kyes Peak
First ascent August 15, 1920 by James Ellsworth Kyes and Reginald Bachelder
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Kyes Peak from Columbia Peak

The Kye Peak , also known as "Goblin Peak", a mountain in the Henry M. Jackson Wilderness in the State of Washington . Kyes Peak towers over 7,280 ft (2,219 m). Together with Columbia Peak and Monte Cristo Peak , it forms a basin that contains the Columbia Glacier and Blanca Lake . It is the highest peak in the Monte Cristo group.

Kyes Peak was once charted as Goblin Peak and was formerly known as Mount Michigan to mountain people and the United States Forest Service . The name Kyes comes from a member of the first to climb group, James Ellsworth Kyes. Together with Reginald Bachelder he climbed the mountain on August 15, 1920. Both were members of the Everett Boy Scouts at the time .

It is uncommon for a Washington Cascade Mountain to be named after a person who climbed it. The USGS agreed to the renaming as Kyes was to be honored for his self-sacrificing command of a destroyer in the Battle of the Atlantic . Thomas Gerdine of the USGS may have made an earlier ascent to the top in 1897.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b USGS . Blanca Lake Quadrangle, Washington [map], 1: 24000, 7.5 minute Topographic.
  2. ↑ Kyes Peak, Washington . peakbagger.com. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Kyes Peak ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey .
  4. ↑ Fred W. Beckey : Rainy Pass to Fraser River  (= Cascade Alpine Guide: climbing and high routes), 3rd edition, Volume 3, The Mountaineers Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-89886-838-8 .

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