Seven Fingered Jack is a mountain in the

North Cascades The North Cascades are a section of the Cascade Range of western North America. They span the border between the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. state of Washington and are officially named in the U.S. and Canada as the Casca ...

in the

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. 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 includes

Mount Maude Mount Maude is the 15th highest peak in Washington state. The peak is located in the Entiat Mountains, a subrange of the North Cascades. It is in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, at the headwaters of the Entiat River. The peak was given its name b ...

and

Mount Fernow Mount Fernow is a tall peak in the North Cascades in the U.S. state of Washington (U.S. state), Washington and within the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the Wenatchee National Forest. At in elevation it is the eighth-highest peak in Washington and t ...

. Seven Fingered Jack is about south of Holden. The peak is in the

Glacier Peak Wilderness Glacier Peak Wilderness is a , , wilderness area located within portions of Chelan, Snohomish, and Skagit counties in the North Cascades of Washington. The area lies within parts of Wenatchee National Forest and Mount Baker National Forest ...

Wenatchee National Forest Wenatchee National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in Washington (state), Washington. With an area of 1,735,394 acres (2,711.55 sq mi, or 7,022.89 km²), it extends about 137 miles along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range of Wa ...

Description

Sources differ over the height of Seven Fingered Jack. Peakbagger.com says it is , peakware.com says , and the

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cites in its

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database. Its rank also differs by source. Seven Fingered Jack is the twelfth-highest peak in Washington, according to peakbagger.com and fourteenth-highest, according to peakware.com. Seven Fingered Jack is the second-highest and middle of the three peaks of the Entiat Cirque, the other two being

and Mount Fernow. All three are over . Together they form a high, curved ridge from which the headwaters of the

Entiat River The Entiat River is a tributary of the Columbia River, joining the Columbia near Entiat. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) lists two variant names for the Entiat River: ''En-ti-at-kwa River'' and ''Entiatqua River''. The river's name is ...

flow eastward. There are a number of

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as ...

s on Seven Fingered Jack and its neighbors, including Entiat Glacier. Streams flowing down the east and south sides of the mountain enter Spider Meadows, through which flows Phelps Creek, a tributary of the

Chiwawa River The Chiwawa River is a tributary of the Wenatchee River, in the U.S. state of Washington. It is completely contained within Chelan County. Much of the Chiwawa River's drainage basin is designated national forest and wilderness. The upper Chiwa ...

, which flows south to the

Wenatchee River The Wenatchee River is a river in the U.S. state of Washington, originating at Lake Wenatchee and flowing southeast for , emptying into the Columbia River immediately north of Wenatchee, Washington. On its way it passes the towns of Plain, Leave ...

. Thus Seven Fingered Jack sits on the boundary between the

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s of the Entiat and Wenatchee rivers. Both rivers are tributaries of the Columbia River.USGS topographic maps accessed from USGS

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website

History

Seven Fingered Jack was once called the Entiat Needles, after their distinctive craggy granite summits. It was given its present name by Albert H. Sylvester, who served as a

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topographer and then, from 1908 to 1931, with the Forest Service as the Forest Supervisor of the

. Over the course of his career he gave over 3,000 names in the region. Seven Fingered Jack and Fernow from Maude

References

{{reflist, 30em Mountains of Washington (state) North Cascades of Washington (state) Mountains of Chelan County, Washington

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