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danger. During winter months weather is usually cloudy, but due to high pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer months, there is often little or no cloud cover during the summer. The months of July through September offer the most favorable weather for climbing the
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originating in the Pacific Ocean travel northeast toward the Olympic Mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (
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Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification".
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from the west side of the mountain drains into Home Creek, a tributary of the
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era by erosion and glaciers advancing and retreating multiple times.
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oceanic crust. The mountains were sculpted during the
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Index


Elevation
Prominence
Parent peak
Inner Constance
Isolation
Coordinates
47°47′03″N 123°08′01″W / 47.78411°N 123.133549°W / 47.78411; -123.133549
Warrior Peak is located in Washington (state)
Warrior Peak is located in the United States
Washington
Jefferson
Olympic National Park
Parent range
Olympic Mountains
Topo map
USGS
Age of rock
Eocene
Type of rock
basalt
First ascent
Fred Beckey
Easiest route
Scrambling
class 3
double summit
Olympic National Park
Jefferson County
Washington

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