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Pilot Peak is an 8,670-foot glaciated summit in the Chugach Mountains of southern Alaska, northwest of Valdez, in a remote area of Chugach National Forest near Mount Einstein and Tazlina Tower. During the 1955 Chugach Mountains Expedition led by Lawrence E. Nielsen and sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America, it was named for the way it served as a distinctive landmark that guided the party back to camp. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names formally adopted the name in 1965. Its subarctic setting brings heavy rain and snow from Gulf of Alaska weather systems, supporting the Columbia Glacier and producing long, severe winters.
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Valdez, Alaska · United States
