Monte Cristo Peak

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This image shows Blanca Lake in the foreground, Columbia Glacier in the left background, Monte Cristo Peak in the middle background, and Kyes Peak in the right background.

Monte Cristo Peak is a mountain peak in the Henry M. Jackson Wilderness in Washington. Monte Cristo Peak rises to 7,136 ft. (2,175 m) above sea level. Together with Columbia Peak and Kyes Peak it forms a basin that contains Columbia Glacier and Blanca Lake. Monte Cristo is named for the mining boom town of Monte Cristo, which formed in the late 19th and early 20th century on its North Western flanks. It was owned by J. D. Rockefeller for a few years. A railroad and cable tramway was built to move materials. Bears, snow, rain and metal markets were but a few problems for the nascent mining camp. Monte Cristo is near the town of Darrington, some sixty miles inland, east of Everett. There was a smelter in Everett.

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