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Harrison Lake. Views of the east side of Mount Constance and Warrior are available from these roads (the lower portions of which
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Constance has little in the way of glaciers and permanent snow because the eastern, and particularly this northeastern, portion of the Olympics receives far less precipitation. However the narrow and steep Crystal Glacier still exists on the mountain's north face, shaded by the
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Constance was first climbed in 1922 by R. Schellin and A.E. Smith from the southeast.
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