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Washington's Steepest Mountain Faces (in 1 horizontal mile)

From Stephen Fry's article "Highest Mountains and Steepest Faces" in the 1983 - 1990 issue of The Mountaineer.

• Location Name	MVD	Face	USGS quad
  Davis Peak	5381	NE	Diablo Dam
  Whitehorse Mountain	5185	NNE	Whitehorse Mountain
  Johannesburg Mountain	5160	N	Cascade Pass
  Luna Peak	5040	NNW	Mount Challenger
  Elephant Butte	4960	4960	Mount Prophet
  Hozomeen Mountain	4926	W	Hozomeen Mountain
  Colonial Peak	4901	N	Ross Dam
  McMillan Spire	4892	N	Mount Challenger
  Mount Rainier	4830	N	Mount Rainier West
  Hozomeen Mountain, South Peak	4820	E	Skagit Peak
  Jack Mountain	4820	NE	Jack Mountain
  Colonial Peak	4816	SES	Ross Dam
  Snowfield Peak	4814	NE	Ross Dam
  Chimney Peak	4812	SE	Chimney Peak
  Storm King	4770	NE	Goode Mountain
  Mount Spickard	4704	E	Mount Spickard
  Mount Terror	4701	NE	Mount Challenger
  Mount Shuksan	4700	S	Mount Shuksan
  Booker Mountain	4660	S	Goode Mountain
  Buck Mountain	4658	NNE	Clark Mountain USGS quad

• The view from our high point above Lake Ann. Point 6461 on Shuksan Arm in foreground, Mount Shuksan in back right. (From this trip.)

• Whitehorse Mountain from the summit of Neiderprum Peak. (From this trip.)