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Glacier Peak

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Glacier Peak
A mountain, 3,215 m (10,541 ft) high, of northwest-central Washington in the Cascade Mountains east-northeast of Everett.


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Among the cities that made Monmonier's list was Seattle, ranked second because it's located 70 miles from Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak, two active volcanoes.
Most geographic reference points mentioned are realistic, however, like the Stehekin River, Glacier Peak, Arlington as the place from which Tom hitches a ride inland after his home-bound bus trip, and the Dakobed, the mother mountain associated with water and sometimes confused by ethnographers as Mount Rainier.
On Washington's Glacier Peak, a climber who toppled into a crevasse and was stranded but not gravely injured dialed 911 on his flip-phone and was rescued.
 
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