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lwha Basin river crossing alternative describes a good way to avoid the standard crossing of the , near its headwater, usually as part of using the route between the high-country and the lowlands (and the official trail system). The Elwha, though small here, is steeper than it looks: the normal crossing-point is impossible in any …
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nderson Ranch is a large river-bottom, flood-plain meadow on the left bank of the ; it lies immediately upstream of . More fully, or historically, it was the Billy Anderson Ranch, and that name will sometimes be seen. It is quite near the beginning of the main , but is on the opposite side of …
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ount Fitzhenry (5,948′) is mostly noted & known (such as it is), as the modest but picturesque peak poised at the head of now-drained , on the in the . The summit is about 6 miles away, by the crow; the base only half of that. It is part of the watersheds of , , …
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tephen Peak is a substantial chunk of backcountry terrain in the of , usually treated as an obstacle along the unofficial ; something to get around and continue with a larger plan. It is prominent in the main cluster of mountains on display from the popular .