Colchuck Glacier
Colchuck Glacier is in the Stuart Range immediately north of Colchuck Peak and Dragontail Peak, in the U.S. state of Washington. Colchuck Glacier is within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of Wenatchee National Forest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Dragontail Peak and Colchuck Peak.
Dragontail Peak
Peak
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Dragontail Peak, also known as Dragon Tail, is a mountain in the Stuart Range, in Chelan County, Washington. While climbing an adjacent peak, Lex Maxwell, Bob McCall, and Bill Prater remarked that the needles on the crest, southwest of the summit, resembled a "dragon tail".
Colchuck Peak
Peak
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Colchuck Peak is an 8,705-foot mountain summit located in the Stuart Range, in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in Chelan County of Washington state. The nearest higher peak is Dragontail Peak, 0.49 mi to the east, and Argonaut Peak lies 0.9 mi to the southwest.
Colchuck Pass
Mountain saddle
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Aasgard Pass, officially identified as Colchuck Pass, is a mountain pass on the east side of the Cascades in Washington's Alpine Lakes Wilderness southwest of Leavenworth.
Colchuck Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 7,031 feet
- Description: glacier in the United States
- Category: landform
- Location: Chelan, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
47.48019° or 47° 28′ 49″ northLongitude
-120.83909° or 120° 50′ 21″ westElevation
7,031 feet (2,143 metres)Open location code
84VXF5J6+39OpenStreetMap ID
way 201703035OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Colchuck Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Colchuck Glacier”
- German: “Colchuck-Gletscher”
- Urdu: “کولچک گلیشیر”
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