Glacier Peak, pink fireweed, Green Mountain trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.

Hike in view of Glacier Peak and a field of fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on the Green Mountain trail in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, accessible from the Mountain Loop Highway, Washington, USA. Glacier Peak, which rises to elevation 10,541 feet in Glacier Peak Wilderness, is the most isolated of the five major stratovolcanoes (composite volcanoes) of the Cascade Volcanic Arc in Washington. Glacier Peak formed during the Pleistocene epoch (about 1 million years ago) and is one of the most active of Washington's volcanoes, erupting explosively five times in the past 3,000 years.

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Hike in view of Glacier Peak and a field of fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on the Green Mountain trail in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, accessible from the Mountain Loop Highway, Washington, USA. Glacier Peak, which rises to elevation 10,541 feet in Glacier Peak Wilderness, is the most isolated of the five major stratovolcanoes (composite volcanoes) of the Cascade Volcanic Arc in Washington. Glacier Peak formed during the Pleistocene epoch (about 1 million years ago) and is one of the most active of Washington's volcanoes, erupting explosively five times in the past 3,000 years.