Mount Rose, and other tales of naming rights
Consider also:
Mount Carrie – named by surveyor and mapmaker Theodore Rixon for his wife, Caroline.
Cowan Creek – named for George Cowan, superintendent of the Filion Mill in Port Angeles in the 1890’s.
Hayes River – named for Christopher O’Connell Hayes, youngest member of the Press Expedition.
Gladys Lake – named by Clallam County Sheriff’s Deputy Fred Rice for his wife.
Bensons Point – named for early Lake Ozette settlers, the Andrew Benson family.
Mount Clark – named for Irving Clark Sr., early proponent of Olympic National Park.
And so many more, some meaningful, some not so much. The naming process, here and elsewhere, often seems downright impetuous.
I saw a snowy peak the other morning, just south of the Dosewallips. With the sunlight beaming on its eastern flank, a stone block rising above the dark forest below and the impossibly white summit blazing into my eyes, I could have named it myself, if things like that were still permitted.
And if it weren’t already named Mount Jupiter
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