Mount Misery (Washington state)
{{Short description|Mountain in Washington, United States}}
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| country = United States
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Mount Misery is a peak in Garfield County, Washington. It is the second highest point in Garfield County, Washington at {{convert|6366|feet}}, 13 ft lower than Diamond Peak, the county's high point.{{cite book|title=Backpacking Washington|first=Craig |last=Romano|date=2023 |publisher=Mountaineers Books|location=Seattle|page=338|isbn=978-1-68051-222-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EfErEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT338}}[https://listsofjohn.com/searchres?c=276 Mount Misery], Lists of John, John Kirk (2020)
It was originally named Possossona, meaning "water passing", by the Indigenous peoples.{{cite book|via=National Park Service|title=Nez Perce Summer 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis|first=Jerome A.|last=Greene|year=2000|publisher=Montana Historical Society Press|chapter=Clearwater|url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/nepe/greene/chap4.htm|access-date=March 25, 2024}}
The peak is included on several lists of unusual Washington state place names.{{cite web|title=Bummer place names in Washington state|first= Sarah Anne |last=Lloyd|date=July 2, 2019|website=Curbed|url=https://seattle.curbed.com/maps/bummer-place-names-washington-state}}{{cite news|work=Pacific NW Magazine|first=Ron|last=Judd|publisher=The Seattle Times|title=Woe be Washington: In place names we tell it like it is|date=July 20, 2012|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/woe-be-washington-in-place-names-we-tell-it-like-it-is/}}