Location: Washington, USA
Elevation: 7,980 ft. (2,432 m)
Mount Olympus is the highest peak in the Olympic range in Washington state and is the fifth largest mountain in the entire state. Due to it’s close proximity to the Pacific Ocean, Mount Olympus receives a large amount of precipitation which attributes to large snowfall in the winter months and heavy ice accumulation creating glaciers such as the Blue (largest with a volume of 0.14 cubic miles and an area of 2.05 square miles) Hoh (longest at 3.06 miles), Humes, Jeffers, Hubert and White glacier.
In 1774, Juan Perez, a Spanish explorer, sighted Mount Olympus and named it “El Cerro de la Santa Roslia.” It is said that this was the first European explorer to name a geographic feature in Washington state. On July 4, 1778, a British explorer, John Meares gave the mountain it’s present name. Meares said, “If that not be the home where dwells the gods, it certainly is beautiful enough to be, and I therefore will call it Mount Olympus.”
Rare Earth Adventures offers the following climbs on Mount Olympus:
Blue Glacier – Beginner
