Mount Fernow is a tall peak in the

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in the

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and within the

Glacier Peak Wilderness Glacier Peak Wilderness is a , , wilderness area located within portions of Chelan County, Washington, Chelan, Snohomish County, Washington, Snohomish, and Skagit County, Washington, Skagit counties in the North Cascades of Washington (state), ...

of the

Wenatchee National Forest Wenatchee ( ) is the county seat and most populous city of Chelan County, Washington, United States. The population within the city limits in 2010 was 31,925, and has increased to 35,508 as of 2020. Located in the north-central part of the stat ...

. At in elevation it is the eighth-highest peak in Washington and the state's third-highest non-volcanic peak. It is also the highest peak of the

Entiat Mountains The Entiat Mountains, or Entiat Range, is a mountain range in the U.S. state of Washington (U.S. state), Washington. Located west of the Columbia River, north of the Wenatchee River, and south of the Entiat River, the range is part of the North Ca ...

, a sub-range of the Cascades. Mount Fernow's

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is , making it the sixtieth-most-prominent peak in Washington. The closest peak to Fernow is

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, to the north, and the nearest higher peak is Bonanza Peak, to the north. Mount Fernow is flanked by several

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s. Other large glaciated peaks are nearby, such as

Seven Fingered Jack Seven Fingered Jack is a mountain in the North Cascades in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located at the north end of the Entiat Mountains, a sub-range of the Cascade Range. It is part of a three-peak group called the Entiat Cirque which in ...

to the south. The headwaters of the

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rise from the south slopes of Mount Fernow and the east slopes of Seven Fingered Jack.USGS topographic maps accessed from USGS

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website

History

Mount Fernow was named by Albert H. Sylvester in honor of

Bernhard Fernow Bernhard Eduard Fernow ( ; January 7, 1851 – February 6, 1923) was the third chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Division of Forestry of the United States from 1886 to 1898, preceding Gifford Pinchot in that position, and laying much ...

, a German forester who moved to the United States and worked for the Division of Forestry in the United States Department of Agriculture in the late 19th century. Mount Fernow was first summited in 1932 by a party including Oscar Pennington and Hermann Ulrichs. A small unnamed lake sits on the northwestern slopes of Fernow. Travelling here requires crossing loose boulder fields.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernow, Mount North Cascades of Washington (state) Mountains of Chelan County, Washington

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