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Mount Goode is a 10,610-foot glaciated summit in Alaska's Chugach Mountains, on Chugach National Forest land east of Anchorage. Known in the Dena'ina language as Skitnu Dghelaya, or Brush River Mountain, it received its official name on March 5, 1924, honoring Richard Urquhart Goode of the United States Geological Survey, who directed Pacific Division topographic work as surveying in Alaska began. The mountain's subarctic climate brings long snowy winters, cool summers, and severe cold, helping sustain the Knik Glacier around it. Its first recorded ascent did not occur until April 1966, and climbers usually find the best conditions in May and June.
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