Mount Lago

Mount Lago
Mount Lago from the east
Highest point
Elevation	8,745 ft (2,665 m)[1]
Prominence	3,268 ft (996 m)[1]
Parent peak	Jack Mountain
Listing	Washington highest summits 23rd
Coordinates	48°49′46″N 120°32′15″W / 48.82932°N 120.537451°W / 48.82932; -120.537451[1]
Geography
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Location	Pasayten Wilderness Okanogan County Washington, U.S.
Parent range	Okanogan Range North Cascades Cascade Range
Topo map	USGS Mount Lago
Climbing
First ascent	1933 Hermann Ulrichs, Dick Alt [2]
Easiest route	Scramble south slopes

Mount Lago^[3] is a prominent 8,745-foot (2,665-metre) mountain summit located in the Okanogan Range of the North Cascades, in Okanogan County of Washington state. The mountain is situated on the eastern side of the Cascade crest, in the Pasayten Wilderness, on land managed by the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest. The nearest higher peak is Jack Mountain, 19.5 miles (31.4 km) to the west-southwest.^[1] Mount Lago is the highest summit of the Okanogan Range, and follows only Jack Mountain {9,075 ft} as the highest peak in the Pasayten Wilderness. Lago is the fourth-most prominent mountain in the Pasayten Wilderness.^[4] Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Pasayten River and Methow River. The mountain was named for Lage Wernstedt (1878–1959), a Forest Service surveyor who made numerous first ascents of the mountains he was mapping in the North Cascades.^[2] Lago, is a play on the way Americans pronounced his name.^[5] Lage, pronounced Loggy, had a son named Lago.^[6]