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Pica Peak is a 7,565-foot mountain in Washington’s Methow Mountains of the North Cascades, on the border of Okanogan and Chelan counties within the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Despite modest prominence, it rises sharply above Early Winters Basin and stands on a divide between drainage flowing to the Methow River and tributaries of the Stehekin River. The peak belongs to a larger North Cascades landscape formed by tectonic activity, volcanism, and the accretion of terranes about 50 million years ago, then carved by Pleistocene glaciation into deep valleys and rugged slopes. Its climate reflects Pacific storms, with heavy winter snowfall and the clearest weather usually from July through September.
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