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Indian Head Peak is a 7,448-foot mountain in Washington’s Glacier Peak Wilderness on Wenatchee Ridge, where it is the second-highest summit. Its slopes drain into Indian Creek and the White River within the Wenatchee River system. Albert Hale Sylvester named the peak for its resemblance from the south near Kodak Peak to an “Indian’s headdress.” Railroad surveyors D. C. Linsley and John A. Tennant first climbed it on July 2, 1870. The mountain stands in a North Cascades landscape shaped by volcanism, uplift, faulting, and repeated Pleistocene glaciation, and in a marine west coast climate marked by heavy Pacific precipitation, snowy winters, and clearer summer conditions.
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