Mount Washington (Oregon)

With an elevation of {{convert|2376|m|ft|disp=flip}} above sea level,{{sfn|Wood|Kienle|1990|p=181}}{{sfn|Hildreth|2007|p=7}} Mount Washington is located in Deschutes and Linn counties in the U.S. state of Oregon.{{cite web|url=https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:0::NO::P3_FID:1151927|title=Feature Detail Report for: Mount Washington|date=November 11, 2018|access-date=November 11, 2018|publisher=Geographic Names Information System|archive-date=November 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112061000/https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:0::NO::P3_FID:1151927|url-status=live}} It lies north of McKenzie Pass, and some {{convert|12|mi|km}} west of the city of Sisters.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|1984|p=893}} It is accessible by foot trails only; the western and southwestern sides of Washington intersect with the Skyline Trail about {{convert|5|km|mi|disp=flip}} from the Big Lake trailhead near U.S. Route 20.{{sfn|Wood|Kienle|1990|p=182}}

Despite being one of the smaller volcanic peaks in the Oregon Cascades,{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=4}} Mount Washington is the most prominent landmark between North Sister and Three Fingered Jack, with the Cache Mountain cinder cones to the northeast and Hayrick Butte and Hoodoo Butte to the northwest.{{cite web|url=https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=322807|title=Washington|date=2013|work=Global Volcanism Program|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|access-date=November 12, 2018|archive-date=November 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115030831/https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=322807|url-status=live}} The volcano forms a crest of steep, icy mountains with North Cinder Peak and Three Fingered Jack to the south of Mount Jefferson.{{sfn|Voth|1963|p=7}} The volcano has a pinnacle appearance resembling the spire-like shape of Mount Thielsen.{{sfn|Harris|2005|p=162}} According to Harris (2005), the volcano resembles Cleopatra's Needle from certain angles and the Sugarloaf Mountain in Brazil from others.{{sfn|Harris|2005|p=163}} The proximal relief for the volcano is {{convert|825|m|ft|disp=flip}}, while the draping relief is {{convert|1025|m|ft|disp=flip}}.{{Ref|art1|[a]}} The volcano has an overall volume of {{convert|15|km3|cumi|disp=flip}}.{{sfn|Hildreth|2007|p=7}}

Elevations in the Mount Washington area range from {{convert|3200|ft|m}} to greater than {{convert|7700|ft|m}}.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=135}} Most precipitation falls during the winter as snow, and summers are warm and dry.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=137}} During the winter season, the Cascades are typically covered with a deep snowpack. Oregon Route 242 over McKenzie Pass is closed from fall through late spring, whereas the Santiam Highway and Oregon Route 126 are maintained and remain open year-round.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=4}}

The Mount Washington Wilderness includes glacial landforms – specifically outwash plains and lateral, recessional, and terminal ground moraines. Many of these glacial deposits were created from the most recent glacial advance in the late Pleistocene, when there was an ice sheet between Mount Washington and Three Fingered Jack,{{sfn|Taylor|1981|p=77}} although there are Holocene glacial deposits as well.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=6}} The McKenzie River, fed by Clear Lake, runs south for about {{convert|15|mi|km}} just west of Mount Washington before it turns west for another {{convert|70|mi|km}} and meets the Willamette River near the city of Eugene.{{sfn|Stearns|1929|p=171}}

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The Mount Washington Wilderness covers an area of {{convert|54278|acre|km2}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/deschutes/recarea/?recid=79445|title=Mount Washington Wilderness: Deschutes|publisher=United States Forest Service|date=2018|access-date=November 12, 2018|archive-date=November 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113081348/https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/deschutes/recarea/?recid=79445|url-status=live}} First named a wild area by the United States Forest Service in 1975, it was designated as one of the original wilderness areas under the 1964 Wilderness Act.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=137}} Located {{convert|32|mi|km}} to the west of Bend, the Mount Washington plot is the smallest of three wilderness areas that encompass most of the High Cascades, a physiographic region located in the central part of Oregon;{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|1984|p=893}} the two others are the Three Sisters Wilderness and Mount Jefferson Wilderness.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|pp=3–4}} Used mostly by hunters, hikers, and climbers, the Mount Washington area includes the Dee Wright Observatory, smaller volcanoes, and parts of the Pacific Crest Trail,{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|1984|p=893}} which runs north–south through the wilderness{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|1984|p=893}} for about {{convert|16.6|mi|km}}. Other major features include Belknap Crater and 28 lakes. The wilderness area is jointly administered by authorities for the Willamette National Forest and Deschutes National Forest.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=135}}

A mineral survey from 1980 through 1981 detected little potential for metallic mineral or fossil fuel resources in the Mount Washington Wilderness.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|1984|p=893}} The area contains large amounts of cinder – more than {{convert|200000000|cuyd|km3}}{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=2}}{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=10}} – but there are alternate sources in the region, which are sufficient to meet local demands. Likewise, there are no mines in the area,{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=2}} nor any documented history of mining claims;{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=7}} the closest mines are located {{convert|20|mi|km}} to the west in the Blue River mining district.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=7}} The volcanic vents throughout the Mount Washington Wilderness are underlain by Eocene to Pliocene volcanic rock layers, which do not contain hydrocarbons for fossil fuels.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|1984|p=895}} While there is relatively little potential for geothermal energy in the High Cascades, there are hot springs along the western edge of the mountain range.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=8}} The Belknap Hot Spring lies {{convert|4|mi|km}} to the southwest of the wilderness area, ejecting water at a rate of {{convert|75|USgal|liter}} per minute with a temperature of {{convert|180|F|C}}.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|1984|p=895}}

Described by Wuerthner (2003) as a "rocks and ice wilderness,"{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=135}} much of the Mount Washington Wilderness consists of lava flows and rubble. However, it does include some forested areas, as well as 28 lakes in the northern and southwestern parts of the space.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=135}} Vegetation in the area includes mountain hemlock, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, and whitebark pine.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=135}} Ponderosa pine occurs at the eastern base of the volcano, with Douglas fir on the western side.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=137}} Vegetation is sparse on lava-covered surfaces.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|1984|p=895}} Mountain hemlock, however, also grows on lava flows, and there is an understory of beargrass, huckleberry, and rhododendron.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=137}} Animal life includes large animals such as deer and elk, with the rare American black bear or cougar. Smaller animals like pikas, marmots, martens, snowshoe hares, and ground squirrels are also found in the area.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=137}} Lakes in the wilderness sustain populations of brook trout, cutthroat trout, and rainbow trout, and frogs can be observed around some of them.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=138}}

The barrenness of Mount Washington's surroundings means that it has seen little historical recreational use. A wagon road at McKenzie Pass was built in 1872, which was later paved during the 1930s and became Oregon Route 242. It received its name from the nearby McKenzie River, which in turn derived its name from Donald McKenzie, a fur trader who explored the area in 1812. On August 26, 1923,{{sfn|Sellars|1923|pp=69–75}} Mount Washington was climbed for the first time by six boys from Bend:{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=137}} Ervin McNeal, Phil Philbrook, Armin Furrer, Wilbur Watkins, Leo Harryman, and Ronald Sellars.{{sfn|Sellars|1923|pp=69–75}}

Before Mount Washington's surroundings were designated a wilderness area in 1964,{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|p=137}} the Willamette National Forest administration had planned to open them to commercial timber production to address a shortage in Lane County, asserting that the land had little aesthetic or recreational merit.{{sfn|Marsh|2002|p=216}} The area was established anyway, as Forest Service agents argued it would improve "wilderness".{{sfn|Marsh|2002|p=216}}

File:Mount Washington - panoramio (1).jpg

Volcanism in the Oregon segment of the Cascade Range results from intra-range rifts{{sfn|Schmidt|Grunder|2009|p=643}} and the subduction of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate{{sfn|Schmidt|Grunder|2009|pp=643–644}} under the North American tectonic plate.{{sfn|Keach|Oliver|Brown|Kaufman|1989|pp=783–784}} Mount Washington forms part of the High Cascades physiographic region in central Oregon, an arc of Pliocene to Quaternary lava flows, cinder cones, and fissure vents that trend from north to south,{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=4}} with occasional large stratovolcanoes.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|pp=4–5}} Near Mount Washington, the High Cascades form a lava field with high-alumina, diktytaxitic basalt erupted from cinder cones. These volcanoes have been eroded by glaciers and reduced to buttes in the Cascade arc, and much of the vents in the area were covered by Mount Washington. Some basalt lava flows occur on the edges of Mount Washington at the Cache Creek and Dry Creek canyons or as outcrops that form benches (long, relatively narrow strips of relatively level or gently inclined land bounded by distinctly steeper slopes above and below) about {{convert|16|km|mi|disp=flip}} away from Washington from Patjens Lake to the McKenzie River.{{sfn|Wood|Kienle|1990|p=181}}

Washington is part of the informal group of volcanoes known as Oregon's Matterhorns, which includes Mount Thielsen, Three Fingered Jack, Mount Bailey, and Diamond Peak. The name originates from the spire-like appearance of the volcanoes' summits, which resembles the pinnacle of the Matterhorn in Switzerland. They all ceased eruptive activity at least 100,000 to 250,000 years ago, leading to their extensive dissection by glaciers over time.{{sfn|Harris|2005|p=157}} Mount Washington is also part of the Sisters Reach subsegment, which extends for {{convert|90|km|mi|disp=flip}} and contains at least 466 volcanoes that were active during the Quaternary. Washington represents one of 30 mafic (rich in magnesium and iron) stratovolcanoes and shield volcanoes in the group, which include Pleistocene and Holocene eruptive centers.{{sfn|Hildreth|2007|p=23}} The volcano and its wilderness area sit on a lava platform with an altitude of {{convert|4000|to|5000|ft}}, and they are bounded by faults to the east and west. Volcanic rocks contained within the wilderness area are either composed of older basalt or younger basaltic andesite, all of which were produced during the Quaternary, probably during the past 700,000 years. Pleistocene deposits show evidence of erosion by glaciers. Holocene deposits, dated between 3,000 and 1,500 years old, encompass about half of the wilderness area, and they also occur outside the wilderness area at its northwestern and southern borders.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|1984|p=893}}

File:Mount Washington Oregon.jpg

Whether Mount Washington is a stratovolcano or shield volcano is debated within the literature. Wood and Kienle (1990) refer to it as a "mafic shield volcano,"{{sfn|Wood|Kienle|1990|p=181}} and the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution also considers it a shield volcano with a pyroclastic cone. Sherrod et al. (2004) classify Mount Washington as a "steep-sided" shield volcano.{{sfn|Sherrod|Taylor|Ferns|Scott|2004|p=31}} E. M. Taylor describes Mount Washington as a stratovolcano cone that reaches an elevation of {{convert|4000|ft|m}} above an older shield volcano,{{sfn|Harris|2005|p=163}} referring to it as "a glacially-gutted Pleistocene stratovolcano."{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=5}} Hildreth (2007) likewise calls it a "a glacially sculpted mafic stratocone [...] with a broad apron of mafic lavas."{{sfn|Hildreth|2007|p=27}} In his argument for classifying Mount Washington as a stratovolcano, Hildreth adds that it is made of composite materials with steep slopes and a high relief of {{convert|700|to|1300|m|ft|disp=flip}}. However, Hildreth acknowledges that there is morphological continuity from steep mafic cones into transitional, cone-shaped shield volcanoes like Olallie Butte.{{sfn|Hildreth|2007|p=44}}

Mount Washington has a diameter of about {{convert|3|mi|km}}.{{cite web|url=http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/washington|title=Washington|work=Volcano World|publisher=Oregon State University|date=2018|access-date=November 12, 2018|archive-date=November 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112223243/http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/washington|url-status=live}} It has a summit cone, a volcanic plug comprised by cinder, lava flows, and intrusive rock that covers Washington's volcanic conduit. This plug is made of micronorite with a diameter of {{convert|0.4|km|mi|disp=flip}}. There are dikes exposed throughout the summit cone, mostly oriented from north to south, with another dike swarm trending north from the central plug.{{sfn|Wood|Kienle|1990|p=181}} The summit formed over a platform of basaltic andesite lavas from early eruptions at Mount Washington, made of thinner flows combined with pyroclastic rock.{{sfn|Harris|2005|p=163}}

The volcano has a mafic composition, with subalkaline basalt and basaltic andesite.{{sfn|Wood|Kienle|1990|p=181}} Lava flows from Washington exhibit breccia with plagioclase and olivine, with palagonite tuff at the northeastern slope of the mountain that might indicate a past subglacial eruption during Washington's cone-building phase.{{sfn|Sherrod|Taylor|Ferns|Scott|2004|p=22}}

Mount Washington has been eroded over time and is now very dissected,{{sfn|Scott|1977|p=121}} with its inner contents exposed and U-shaped canyons and cirques.{{sfn|Williams|1944|p=41}} In the late Pleistocene, large glaciers extending more than {{convert|12|km|mi|disp=flip}} to the east and west carved cirques into the slopes of the volcano.{{sfn|Wood|Kienle|1990|p=181}} The George Lake and Dry Creek cirques, which face north and northeast, respectively, show evidence of holding glaciers similar to those documented at Canyon Creek cirque on Three Fingered Jack{{sfn|Scott|1977|p=119}} with moraines.{{sfn|Sherrod|Taylor|Ferns|Scott|2004|p=6}} Wood and Kienle (1990) estimate that Mount Washington once extended to an elevation of {{convert|2600|m|ft|disp=flip}}, with an elevation of {{convert|1200|m|ft|disp=flip}} above the basalt lava field surrounding it.{{sfn|Wood|Kienle|1990|p=181}}

The Global Volcanism Program considers Cache Mountain, Little Cache Mountain, Hayrick Butte, and Hoodoo Butte subsidiary cones of Mount Washington. The Mount Washington Wilderness includes a number of cinder cones, typically with elevations between {{convert|150|and|300|ft|m}}. Composed of gray to red cinder, they also have scoria and welded spatter.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|1984|p=895}} Major cinder cones in the wilderness include Belknap Crater, Twin Craters, Scott Mountain, and the Sand Mountain craters.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=8}}

File:MtWashington Belknap BB 150509.jpg

Eruptions from a chain of spatter cones mark the most recent activity at Mount Washington. About one mile in length, they trend northeast, with their mid-section parallel to depressions in the Cache Creek valley between Mount Washington and Blue Lake Crater. The northernmost vent of Mount Washington has a depth of {{convert|10|ft|m}} and likely only ever erupted volcanic gas. The first group of four spatter cones lies {{convert|200|ft|m}} to the south, with depths ranging from {{convert|30|to|40|ft|m}}. Farther south, there are seven other vents, including three small craters separated from three larger vents to the south by a graben, as well as a central crater with a small crater on the northern side of its rim.{{sfn|Taylor|1965|p=137}}

There are four major types of basalt and basaltic andesite in the central Cascades: early high-alumina olivine tholeiitic (HAOT) basalt, normal High Cascade HAOT basalt, North Sister basaltic andesites, and Mount Washington type basaltic andesites.{{sfn|Hughes|1990|p=19623}} Hughes (1990) argues that their differences could be the result of different magma sources or magma evolution in open systems.{{sfn|Hughes|1990|p=19623}} Mount Washington basaltic andesites are also considered one of the three distinct mafic rock types in the High Cascade platform, with North Sister basaltic andesites and normal basalts. The three groups all exhibit different major and trace element abundances.{{sfn|Hughes|1990|p=19627}} Mount Washington basaltic andesite is more common than North Sister basaltic andesite, with higher levels of incompatible elements{{sfn|Schmidt|Grunder|2009|p=644}} and rare-earth elements.{{sfn|Hughes|Taylor|1986|p=1024}} It also extends to the east and west of the major Cascade arc.{{sfn|Schmidt|Grunder|2009|p=644}} Otherwise, the Mount Washington and North Sister basaltic andesites display lithologic similarities{{sfn|Hughes|Taylor|1986|p=1024}} including a dearth of pyroxene phenocrysts and augite microphenocrysts,{{sfn|Hughes|1982|p=72}} and both groups were probably near-primary melts.{{sfn|Hughes|Taylor|1986|p=1024}} According to Hughes (1982), examples of Mount Washington basaltic andesites occur at Holocene deposits from Nash Crater,{{sfn|Hughes|1982|p=65}} Four-in-One Cone,{{sfn|Hughes|1982|p=65}} and Little Belknap Cone,{{sfn|Hughes|1982|p=65}} as well as undated deposits at Todd Lake Volcano, Falls Creek, Broken Top, and the abutment of Tumalo Dam.{{sfn|Hughes|1982|p=66}}

Mount Washington formed during the late Pleistocene epoch; the volcano itself is not older than a few hundred thousand years. Harris (2005) estimates that it has not erupted for more than 250,000 years, similar to Mount Thielsen;{{sfn|Harris|2005|p=163}} this date is supported by James, Manga, and Rose (1999).{{sfn|James|Manga|Rose|1999|p=823}} Paleomagnetic evidence suggests that the volcano and associated lava flows exhibit normal magnetic polarity. Its volcanic edifice was produced through the eruption of basaltic andesite and mafic volcanic ash, the latter being preserved as palagonite tuff along the northeastern and southwestern flanks of the summit cone.{{sfn|Wood|Kienle|1990|p=181}}

Compared to larger stratovolcanoes in the Cascade volcanic arc, Mount Washington, like the rest of Oregon's Matterhorns, had a relatively short eruptive life.{{sfn|Harris|2005|p=157}} Several spatter cones produced basaltic andesite{{sfn|Wood|Kienle|1990|p=181}} on the lower northeastern side of the volcano,{{sfn|Sherrod|Taylor|Ferns|Scott|2004|p=7}} following a fissure that reached {{convert|4|km|mi|disp=flip}} from Washington's summit. There were no lava flows from this eruption, nor at an eruption at the nearby Blue Lake Crater,{{sfn|Sherrod|Taylor|Ferns|Scott|2004|p=8}} which produced volcanic material that displayed petrographic similarities to the Mount Washington splatter cone deposits. These include similar porphyritic textures with 10 to 15 percent plagioclase phenocrysts as well as similar alignments, suggesting that they erupted simultaneously.{{sfn|Sherrod|Taylor|Ferns|Scott|2004|p=8}} Sherrod et al. (2004) argue that the spatter cones and activity from Blue Lake Crater represent the most recent eruptions near the McKenzie Pass and Santiam Pass region.{{sfn|Sherrod|Taylor|Ferns|Scott|2004|p=8}}

It is still possible that new volcanic cones could be produced at the base of Mount Washington.{{sfn|Harris|2005|p=163}} However, according to Taylor, Causey, and MacLeod (1983), the volcano itself is unlikely to still be active.{{sfn|Taylor|Causey|MacLeod|1983|p=5}}

File:Fishing in Big Lake on the Santiam Highway near Mt. Washington (cropped).jpg

While the area is not used as frequently as many other wilderness areas in the Oregon branch of the Cascade Range, it offers scenic lakes and trails.{{sfn|Christensen|Cole|2000|p=79}} The Pacific Crest Trail passes over the western side of Mount Washington. Other trails include a loop around the Patjens Lakes, the Hand Lake trail, and the Benson Lake route.{{sfn|Wuerthner|2003|pp=137–138}} The U.S. National Geodetic Survey Data Sheet for Mount Washington notes that climbing the volcano is challenging and dangerous and thus is not recommended for inexperienced climbers or climbers without proper equipment.

• [a] {{note|art1}} According to Hildreth's definitions, proximal relief refers to the difference between the summit elevation and the highest exposure of old rocks under the main edifice, while draping relief marks the difference between the summit elevation and the edifice's lowest distal lava flows (excluding pyroclastic and debris flows).{{sfn|Hildreth|2007|p=7}}

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Category:Deschutes National Forest

Category:Landmarks in Oregon

Category:Mountains of Deschutes County, Oregon

Category:Mountains of Linn County, Oregon

Category:Pleistocene shield volcanoes

Category:Polygenetic shield volcanoes

Category:Shield volcanoes of the United States

Category:Subduction volcanoes

Category:Volcanic plugs of the United States

Category:Volcanoes of Deschutes County, Oregon

Category:Volcanoes of Linn County, Oregon

Category:Willamette National Forest

Category:Stratovolcanoes of Oregon