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Mount Logan is a remote 9,087-foot peak deep in Washington’s North Cascades National Park, about 20 miles from the nearest trailhead. While the climb itself is not especially difficult, the easiest routes cross glacier terrain, and ropes are recommended. Banded, Fremont, and Douglas glaciers lie on its slopes, reflecting the heavily glaciated character of the surrounding ridges and valleys. The mountain sits in a marine west coast climate shaped by Pacific weather systems, bringing heavy winter precipitation, wet snow, and avalanche danger, with clearer summers. Its landscape also reflects the North Cascades’ long geologic history of tectonic, volcanic, and later Pleistocene glacial shaping.
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