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Washington State Route 547, which traverses a low pass on the mountain's northern flank, runs northwest from the Mount Baker Highway, (SR 542) in Kendall to SR 9 in Sumas, which is located on the Canada–United States border and south of Abbotsford, British Columbia. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad once traversed the same ...
Several local musical groups, including the Fidalgo Youth Symphony [3] and the Skagit Valley Chorale, bring together local amateur musicians from across the Skagit Valley. . In 2020, the Skagit Valley Chorale made international headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States when an infected person attended a choir rehearsal, before COVID-19 was known to be spreading in the local ...
Skagit Peak is a 6,824-foot (2,080-metre) mountain summit located in the North Cascades, in Whatcom County of Washington state. [1] It is situated on the western side of the Cascade crest , at the western edge of the Pasayten Wilderness , on land managed by the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest .
Sauk Mountain is a 5,545-foot (1,690-metre) mountain summit located in Skagit County of Washington state. [4] It is situated immediately north of Rockport State Park and the North Cascades Highway, on land managed by the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
Highest point; Elevation: 8,200+ ft (2,500+ m) NGVD 29 [1] Prominence: 1,560 ft (480 m) [1] Coordinates: 2]: Geography; Location: Skagit County, Washington, U.S.: Parent range: North Cascades: Topo map: USGS Cascade Pass (WA): Climbing; First ascent: 1938 by Calder Bressler, Bill Cox, Ray Clough, Tom Myers: Easiest route: East Route (hike/scramble): Johannesburg Mountain is one of the most ...
Red Mountain is a 7,662-foot (2,335-metre) summit in the North Cascades of Washington, United States. It is located in Skagit County, within North Cascades National Park and the Stephen Mather Wilderness. It is situated on a smooth ridge of brick-red color at the western culmination of Ragged Ridge. [3]
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [2] [3] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of Washington by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
On the United States side of the border, early inhabitants of the North Cascades included the Nooksack, Skagit, and Sauk-Suiattle tribes on the west, and the Okanagan people on the eastern side, with the Nlaka'pamux people of what is now Canada claiming hunting territory in the heart of the range, south across the border into Washington.