Three Fingered Jack

Three Fingered Jack

Infobox Mountain
Name = Three Fingered Jack
Photo = Three fingered jack from southwest on PCT P3025.jpeg
Caption = Southwest side of Three Fingered Jack seen from Pacific Crest Trail
Elevation = convert|7844|ft|m [ cite web
url = http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=QD1735
title = NGS Data Sheet for THREE FINGERED JACK=HAYRICK
publisher = U.S. National Geodetic Survey
accessdate = 2008-04-02
]
Location = Oregon, USA
Range = Cascades
Prominence = convert|2481|ft|m [ cite web
url = http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2406
title = Three Fingered Jack, Oregon
publisher = Peakbagger.com
accessdate = 2008-04-02
]
Coordinates = coord|44.4781743|-121.8453392|format=dms|region:US_type:mountain [GNIS|1151164accessdate|2008-04-02]
Topographic
USGS Three Fingered Jack
Type = Shield volcano
Volcanic_Arc/Belt = Cascade Volcanic Arc
Age = older than 200,000 years
First ascent = 1923
Easiest route =

Three Fingered Jack, named for its distinctive shape, is a Pleistocene volcano in the Cascade Range of Oregon. It is a deeply glaciated shield volcano and consists mainly of basaltic andesite lava. [ cite web
url = http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cascades/volcanoes_cascade_range.html#three_fingered_jack
title = Cascade Range Volcanoes Summaries
publisher = USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
accessdate = 2008-04-01
]

It was first climbed in 1923 by six boys from Bend, Oregon,cite book
last =Sullivan
first =William L.
editor =Thurman, Paula (Ed.)
title =Exploring Oregon's Wild Areas (3rd ed.)
publisher =The Mountaineers Books
year =2002
] or members of The Mazamas. [ cite web
url = http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/noca/hbd/chap8.htm
title = North Cascades: Basic History Data
author = Erwin N. Thompson
publisher = National Park Service (U.S. Department of the Interior)
date = March 1970
accessdate = 2008-08-08
]

References

* cite book
last = Harris
first = Stephen L.
title = Fire Mountains of the West
year = 2005
edition = 3rd edition
publisher = Mountain Press Publishing Company
location = Missoula, Montana
id = ISBN 0-87842-511-X

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