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Mount Si (pronounced /saɪ/), known as q'əlpc' to the Snoqualmie people, is a mountain in the northwest United States, east of Seattle, Washington. It lies on the western margin of the Cascade Range just above the coastal plains around Puget Sound, and towers over the nearby town of North Bend. Mount Si and neighboring mountain Little Si were named after local homesteader Josiah "Uncle Si" Merritt. The mountain became nationally familiar in the early 1990s with the television series Twin Peaks, which was filmed in North Bend.

Mount Si
Mount Si from the southwest
Highest point
Elevation	4,167 ft (1,270 m) NGVD 29[1]
Prominence	247 ft (75 m)[1]
Coordinates	47°30′27″N 121°44′24″W[2]
Geography
Mount Si King County, Washington, U.S. Show map of Washington (state) Mount Si Mount Si (the United States) Show map of the United States
Parent range	Cascades
Topo map	USGS Mount Si
Climbing
Easiest route	Hike and short class 3, scramble

Only about a 45-minute drive from Seattle, the mountain is a favorite outdoor destination for residents of Puget Sound. Between 80,000 and 100,000 hikers visit the mountain annually.[1] The land is owned by the state of Washington and has been designated a Natural Resources Conservation Area.[3][4]

The four-mile-long (6.5 km) Mount Si trail vertically climbs 3,500 feet (1,070 m) to the summit ridge.[1] Its summit is reached by an exposed scramble, class 3, up the north side of the summit block, which is known as the "Haystack".[5]

The peak can be accessed by two trails. The Old Mount Si trail is accessed by the Little Si parking lot and the Boulder Garden Loop. It is 0.6 miles (0.97 km) shorter, 270 feet (82 m) steeper in elevation gain, and less crowded than the main trail. The Mount Si trail is accessed by the Mount Si parking lot.

Oceanic Plate Volcano

Mount Si is a remnant of an oceanic plate volcano and the rocks are highly metamorphosed.[6] The rock deposits are a melange including metagabbro, and are Jurassic-Cretaceous in age.[7]

In local native legend

Mount Si figures prominently in a Prometheus story from the Snoqualmie tribe. According to the story it is the dead body of Snoqualm, the moon. Snoqualm had ordered that a rope of cedar bark be stretched between the earth and the sky. But Fox and Blue Jay went up the rope and stole the sun from Snoqualm. Snoqualm chased them down the cedar rope, but it broke and he fell to his death. Fox then let the sun free in the sky and gave fire to the people. A face like Snoqualm's is visible on the rocks near the summit.[8]

References

External links

• "Mount Si Web Site" (web). MountSi.com.
• "Mount Si NRCA and Upper Snoqualmie Valley" (PDF). Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Archived from the original (map) on 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
• "Mount Si Brochure" (PDF). Washington State Department of Public Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-15. Retrieved 2010-03-13.
• View of Mount Si from I-90 on Google Street View

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Der Mount Si (.mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}/saɪ/) ist ein Berg im US-Bundesstaat Washington. Er liegt an der Westgrenze der Kaskadenkette gerade oberhalb der Küstenebene am Puget Sound und überragt die benachbarte Stadt North Bend. Der Berg wurde nach dem Pionier Josiah „Uncle Si“ Merritt benannt. Er wurde in der Fernsehserie Twin Peaks bekannt, die in North Bend gedreht wurde.

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