Mount Washington (6,255'), which comes into view on the final approach to Ellinor, is Washington State's 73rd most prominent peak
Lake Cushman is named after Orrington Cushman, interpreter for Governor Isaac Stevens during the Treaty of Point Elliott negotiations with Puget Sound Tribes in 1854
Views from the summit include much of Olympic National Park, which covers over 922,000 acres
An estimated 2400 - 3200 mountain goats live in Washington; goats are native to the Cascades and were introduced to the Olympic Peninsula in the 1920s
The trail takes a clever route through a rugged talus chute at 2.55 miles to reach grassy slopes below the south ridge
Though much of the Cushman area has been logged, the Mount Ellinor Trail features impressive old growth stands of fir and hemlock
Mount Ellinor and Mount Washington sit along the Mt Skokomish Wilderness Area Boundary, which covers 13,280 acres
Huckleberry is a corruption of the whurtleberry," a type of whortleberry; and although it's colloquially referred to as a berry, it's technically a drupe
Lake Cushman was originally a long bend on the Skokomish River which formed in a glacial trough from the last ice age
A ramp-like trail runs above the rocky chute to meet the south ridge .3 miles below the summit
Mountain goats have few natural predators; most naturally occurring deaths are the result of rockslides, avalanches and starvation due to worn out teeth
Mount Pershing (6,154') stands above the Brown's Hike Lake and the Jefferson Creek drainage
The Hood Canal is an arm of the Puget Sound, which is about 67 miles long and 2.4 miles across at its widest point
You can begin to tell the age of a mountain goat after two years by counting the rings on their horns
The Cushman Dam is 275' high and 1,111' long
The Mount Ellinor Trail climbs 3,326' in just 3.1 miles from the lower trailhead to the summit
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