Glacier Peak rises southeast of Sauk Mountain, Central Cascades, Washington, USA

Glacier Peak rises to the southeast of Sauk Mountain, which an easy day hike of 4 miles round trip and 1100 feet vertical gain on a graded zig zag trail, near the town of Concrete, Washington, on State Route 20, the North Cascades Highway, 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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Glacier Peak rises to the southeast of Sauk Mountain, which an easy day hike of 4 miles round trip and 1100 feet vertical gain on a graded zig zag trail, near the town of Concrete, Washington, on State Route 20, the North Cascades Highway, 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.