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Mount Seattle is a 6,246-foot summit in Olympic National Park’s Quinault Rainforest within the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness, notable for rising more than 3,800 feet above the Elwha valley in a short distance. Its waters flow north toward the Elwha River and south toward tributaries of the Quinault River, with Low Divide linking it to Mount Christie. James Halbold Christie and Charles Adams Barnes of the 1889–90 Seattle Press Expedition named it on April 29, 1890, honoring Seattle, and observations there aided Barnes’s mapping of the Olympic Mountains. The first documented ascent came in 1907 during reconnaissance for The Mountaineers’ first Mount Olympus attempt.
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