Seven Fingered Jack

Seven Fingered Jack

View from the south-southeast of Seven-Fingered Jack (skyline, just left of center) and Mount Maude (skyline, just right of center)
Elevation 9,100 ft (2,800 m)[1]
Prominence 380 ft (120 m)[1]
Parent peak Mount Fernow[1]
Location
Seven Fingered Jack

Location of Seven Fingered Jack in Washington

Location Chelan, Washington, United States
Range North Cascades
Coordinates 48°9′2″N 120°48′50″W / 48.15056°N 120.81389°WCoordinates: 48°9′2″N 120°48′50″W / 48.15056°N 120.81389°W[2]
Climbing
First ascent 1932 by Richard Alt.[3]

Seven Fingered Jack is a mountain in the North Cascades in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located at the north end of the Entiat Mountains, a sub-range of the Cascade Range. It is part of a three-peak group called the Entiat Cirque which includes Mount Maude and Mount Fernow. Seven Fingered Jack is about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Holden.[2] The peak is in the Glacier Peak Wilderness of Wenatchee National Forest.

Description

Sources differ over the height of Seven Fingered Jack. Peakbagger.com says it is 9,100 ft (2,800 m),[1] peakware.com says 9,077 ft (2,767 m),[3] and the USGS cites 9,022 ft (2,750 m) in its GNIS database.[2] Its rank also differs by source. Seven Fingered Jack is the 12th highest peak in Washington according to peakbagger.com[4] and 14th highest according to peakware.com.[3]

Seven Fingered Jack is the second highest and middle of the three peaks of the Entiat Cirque, the other two being Mount Maude and Mount Fernow. All three are over 9,000 feet.[5] Together they form a high curved ridge from which the headwaters of the Entiat River flow eastward. There are a number of glaciers on Seven Fingered Jack and its neighbors, including Entiat Glacier. Streams flowing down the east and south sides of the mountain enter Spider Meadows, through which flows Phelps Creek, a tributary of the Chiwawa River, which flows south to the Wenatchee River. Thus Seven Fingered Jack sits on the boundary between the drainage basins of the Entiat and Wenatchee rivers. Both rivers are tributaries of the Columbia River.[6]

History

Seven Fingered Jack was once called the Entiat Needles, after their distinctive craggy granite summits. It was given its present name by Albert H. Sylvester,[3] who served as a USGS topographer and then, from 1908–1931, with the Forest Service as the Forest Supervisor of the Wenatchee National Forest. Over the course of his career he gave over 3,000 names in the region.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Seven Fingered Jack, Washington". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2009-06-06.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Seven Fingered Jack". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Seven Fingered Jack". Peakware.com. Retrieved 2009-06-06.
  4. ↑ "Washington Bulger List". Peakbagger.com.
  5. ↑ "Seven Fingered Jack". SummitPost.org. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  6. ↑ USGS topographic maps accessed from USGS GNIS website
  7. ↑ "Albert Hale Sylvester". UW Libraries, Special Collections. Retrieved 2009-06-06.