Hozomeen Mountain, a double-summited rock peak above Ross Lake in Washington’s North Cascades, is renowned less for height than for its sheer, abrupt rise from the surrounding landscape. Its Salish name, recorded on a boundary survey map around 1857 to 1860 by guide Thiusoloc, was said by Annie York to mean “sharp, like a sharp knife,” reflecting the long use of local Hozomeen chert for tools over roughly 9,000 years. The mountain later became notable in mountaineering, with first ascents of its main summits in 1904, 1947, and 1951, and in American literature through Jack Kerouac’s writings inspired by nearby Desolation Peak.