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Mount Storm King rises above Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park, about twenty miles west of Port Angeles, with steep slopes reaching about 4,500 feet. A trail from near Storm King Ranger Station leads partway up, but the upper climb becomes a difficult scramble over loose, exposed rock. Beyond its striking setting, the mountain holds deep cultural and geological significance. In Klallam tradition, it hurled a boulder that split the land and formed Lake Crescent and Lake Sutherland. Scientists also link its slopes to an earthquake-triggered rockslide around 1100 BCE that sent millions of cubic meters of rock into Lake Crescent and likely produced a megatsunami.
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