Oval Peak

Oval Peak is an eight thousand eight hundred-foot mountain in Washington’s North Cascades and the highest summit in the Methow Mountains, rising above the headwaters of Oval Creek and Buttermilk Creek. On the drier east side of the Cascade crest, it has warmer summers than the wetter country to the west, but thunderstorms, lingering snow, and severe winter cold still shape conditions, with climbing usually best from early July into October. Its loose talus slopes make ascent difficult, and a small rock glacier lies on the mountain. The surrounding landscape was formed over millions of years by tectonic, volcanic, uplift, faulting, and repeated Pleistocene glacial processes.

Washington · United States