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02 122 Mt Pugh S slope from Mt Forgotten (199k)
Across the Sauk River Valley from Mt Forgotten is the bulky quartz diorite of Mt Pugh. The Indian name for the lofty Pugh was "Da Klagwats". Popular usage is Mount Pugh, but maps refer to it as Pugh Mtn. Named after William R Pugh who settled at its base by 1892. In 1903 he was employed as a laborer at Goat Lk by the Penn Mining Co. The summit lookout station was completed in 1919, but has long since disappeared.
02 124 Mount Pugh from the lower trail. (227k)
02 128 Three Fingers Whitehorse from Stujack. (146k)
02 130 Whitechuck Mtn from Stujack Pass (193k)
White Chuck Mountain as seen from Stujack Pass. This outstanding peak is a solitary craggy massif with a steep South face. The name is a combination of English and Chinook for "glacial (white) water;" the Sauk Indian name for the peak is said to be "Hi Khead", meaning "reach-ing high or long neck". The first ascent was made by a USGS party including Albert H Sylvester and others on July 28, 1897. Darrington RD.
02 131 Upper slopes of Mt Pugh from Stujack Pass (220k)
The Upper slopes of Mount Pugh from Stujack Pass. Nels Bruseth made the first ascent in 1916, and for several years he maintained a summit tent as a lookout station; during one period of his summit service he carried on a courtship at Bedal by running down the mountain after work and returning by morning. As an aid to climb on steep snow and heather he used a cut down garden rake. Mt Baker-Snoqualmie NF. Aug 1972
02 132 Doug H on upper slopes of Mount Pugh. (265k)
02 134 Forgotten Twin Hall Big 4 Vesper. (147k)
02 135 Sloan Pk Monte Cristo Peaks and Mt Rainier (206k)
The arrowhead spire of Sloan Pk, the jumbled mass of the Monte Cristo Peaks and distant bulk of Mt Rainier fill out the view to the Southeast from Mount Pugh. This side of Sloan Peak is Bedal Peak with its snow covered North slope. A row of clear cut logging slashes line the slopes above the Sauk River. Right center are the near identical summits of Gemini Pk. The low gap in the center is Ida Pass. Darrington District. 8/72
02 136 Doug H on Mt Pugh with Glacier Peak (241k)
A triumphant pose on top of Mt Pugh with Glacier Peak beyond. Professor William D Lyman, in an eloquent passage, captured Glacier Peak's magnificent image: "It can be seen in all its snowy vastness, ten thousand feet high, and bearing upon its broad shoulders miles and miles of rivers of ice, the most beautiful and significant of all the poems of nature". Indians once called it "DaKobed" meaning "Great Parent". Aug '72
02 137 Warren on Mt Pugh with Mt Baker. (106k)
02 138 Example of a poor self-arrest Doug H. (176k)
02 139 Doug H on Switchbacks below Stujack Pass. (182k)
02 139m Pugh Mountain Stujack Pass Map. (322k)
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