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Mount Elk Lick is a remote 6,517-foot summit in Washington’s Olympic Mountains, within Olympic National Park and the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness. Rising steeply above the Duckabush valley, it stands at the head of Elk Lick Creek and divides runoff between the Duckabush and Dosewallips rivers. Its official name was adopted in 1961 from nearby mineral licks used by elk and deer, and the first recorded ascent came in 1971 by Bartlett Burns, Hugh Favero, and Frank King. The mountain is shaped by a marine west coast climate, with heavy winter snow and avalanche danger, and by geology formed from oceanic crust, sedimentary material, and repeated Pleistocene glaciation.
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