North Twin, Washington

Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 6640 - 6680 ft     (40-foot closed contour) NAVD88 Elevation: 6644 ft / 2025 m     (Range 6644 - 6684 ft)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	48° 42' 56'' N, 121° 59' 54'' W 48.715468, -121.998392 (Dec Deg) 573676 E 5396310 N, Zone 10 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Washington
County/Second Level Region	Whatcom
Links Search Engines - search the web for "North Twin":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      North Twin at SummitPost.org      North Twin at ListsOfJohn.com      North Twin at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio) Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain North Twin:      Smoot's "Climbing Washington's Mountains" 100 Peaks (Rank #74)      Mountaineers Baker's Dozen (Rank #17)      Southwest British Columbia-Gunn Scrambles (Rank #110) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Climbing Washingtons Mountains (Smoot)
Ascent Info Total ascents/attempts logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 230      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 212) Selected Trip Reports:      1994-07-23 by Brian Friedrich      1995-04-16 by Brian Friedrich (Unsuccessful)      1995-05-20 by Brian Friedrich      1995-07-15 by John Anholm (Unsuccessful)      2000-07-29 by Brian Friedrich      2009-08-19 by Jan Triska      2010-02-06 by Evan Muirow      2011-07-23 by Bri Wilson      2013-06-28 by Natasha Walker      2015-05-30 by Susan Shih (Unsuccessful)      2015-06-06 by George Burgess (GPS Track)      2016-05-01 by Jason Pfannenstiel      2016-05-10 by Susan Shih      2016-05-13 by Steve Brown (GPS Track)      2016-05-13 by Bent Wiencke (GPS Track)      2017-06-03 by Patty Cokus      2018-09-03 by Abrahm Rollins      2019-05-11 by Amrit Panda (GPS Track)      2019-05-18 by Julia Syi      2019-05-18 by Susan Shih      2020-05-09 by Jonathan Koberstein      2020-06-03 by Amy Zamora (Unsuccessful)      2020-06-21 by Jaime McCandless (Unsuccessful) (GPS Track)      2020-07-19 by Jason Curtis      2020-07-19 by Jaime McCandless (GPS Track)      2020-09-07 by Ivan Mitloshuk (GPS Track)      2021-05-22 by Luca Baradel (GPS Track)      2021-07-10 by Karthik Krish (GPS Track)      2021-07-12 by Nick Magill      2022-05-01 by Aaron Minton      2022-07-09 by Sara Holzknecht      2022-07-30 by Mi Ka (Unsuccessful)      2022-08-05 by Robyn Pryor
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The SE ridge of the North Twin can be seen here. Picture taken from an approach trail, on the ridge start, at about 1400 m altitude.(August 2009) (2009-08-19). Photo by Jan Triska. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 680 ft/207 m   Optimistic Prominence: 760 ft/231 m   Line Parent: South Twin   Key Col: 5960 ft/1817 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 0.74 mi/1.19 km    Isolation Limit Point: 48.7067, -121.9892 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     South Twin  (SE)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Cascade Range Range4: North Cascades Range5: Skagit Range Range6: Twin Sisters-Foothills
Drainage Basins	Nooksack Strait of Georgia Pacific Ocean
Ownership	Land: Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest Wilderness/Special Area: Mount Baker Wilderness Area
Topo Map	Twin Sisters Mountain O48121f8 1:24,000
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

North Twin Peak from the logging road. West Ridge is on the right. Snow descent connects the obvious snow patches (2020-07-19). Photo by Jason Curtis. Click here for larger-size photo.

The obelisk tower and the false summit behind it from the W ridge of North Twin Sister. The climbing route goes on the right just below the tower (2021-07-10). Photo by Karthik Krish. Click here for larger-size photo.

Descending the steep NW face late season (2022-08-05). Photo by Robyn Pryor. Click here for larger-size photo.

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