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Mount Jefferson

USA / Oregon / Idanha /
 mountain, volcano

Mount Jefferson is Oregon's second-tallest mountain at 10,497 feet/3199m. This craggy volcano (possibly extinct, but scientists aren't 100% sure about that) is topped by a 400-foot sheer pinnacle of crumbling rock that gives Jefferson its well-deserved reputation as the most difficult of Oregon's Cascade summits to climb. The centerpiece of a large wilderness area in the north-central part of the state, the eastern flank of the mountain is part of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.

Jefferson was named in the spring of 1806 by Lewis and Clark who sighted it from near present-day Portland and named it for President Thomas Jefferson, who sponsored their journey to the Pacific. This was the first major Cascade peak to be named for an American president and not for a British admiral or dignitary, as in the case of Mt. Baker, Rainier, Hood and St. Helens.

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Coordinates:   44°40'33"N   121°48'2"W

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