Stuart Parks and Brad Gessner ski from base camp, Wrangell Mountains.

Photo by Wayne Todd.

Rosie’s Roost was built in 1968, it is part of the Eklutna Traverse and was originally called Eagle Glacier Cabin.

Photo by Greg Bragiel.

A Brocken spectre is the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun.

Photo by Wayne Todd.

Pichler's Perch, the MCA's first hut, built in 1964, is the forerunner of the Eklutna Traverse system of shelters.

Photo by Wayne Todd.

Front Range Highpoints

The Front Range of Chugach State Park consists of the peaks encircled by a line traveling along Turnagain Arm, Indian Creek, Indian Creek Pass, the South Fork of Ship Creek, Ship Creek, Knik Arm, Cook Inlet, and Turnagain Arm. The peaks below are not all "true summits" that have at least 500 feet of vertical relief between themselves the next higher summit. This list contains: the 12 commonly recognized 5,000-foot peaks, all the true peaks with 500 feet of prominence, and several officially or unofficially named peaks that aren't true peaks but are enjoyable destinations (denoted by ^ symbol afer the peak name). Thirty peaks in all to give you a taste of the Chugach State Park. 

No. Peak Elevation in feet*
1 Mount Williwaw
5445
2 Temptation Peak 
 5384
3 East Tanaina Peak 
 5358
4 West Tanaina Peak^
 5266
5 The Ramp 5240
6 Tikishla Peak^
 5230
7 O'Malley Peak^ 5182
8 Koktoya Peak 
 5148
9 Hidden Peak^
 5105
10 North Suicide Peak 
 5065
11 Avalanche Mountain 
 5050
12 South Suicide Peak 
 5005
13 Ptarmigan Peak 
 4950
14 Mount Elliott 
 4710
15 Knoya Peak^
 4669
16 Homicide Peak 
 4660
17 The Wedge 4660
18 Flaketop Peak  4510
19 Wolverine Peak   4491
20 Kanchee Peak^ 4393
21 Indianhouse Mountain   4350
22 McHugh Peak 
 4311
23 False Peak (west of O'Malley)^ 4250
24 Ship Creek Hill***
 3845
 25 Rusty Point^
 3563
26 Rainbow Peak 3543
27 Flattop Mountain^ 3510
28 Snow Hawk Mountain*** 3245
29 Near Point^ 3050
 30 Blueberry Knoll^ 2625

* Some of the elevations are estimates and could be off by +/- 50' depending on map contour intervals.

^ Denotes peaks that are not true summits. All but Rusty Point are officially named peaks.

*** These unoffically named summits have 500' of prominence but they are on JBER military land not Chugach State Park.


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