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At 7788 feet above sea level, Mount Deception is the tallest peak of the northeastern Olympic Mountains, in western Washington State's Olympic National Park. Two glaciers hug its north facing basalt slopes. Radiating northward from its shoulders are The Needles, Mount Clark (7528), Mount Walkinshaw (7378), and the northeastern running extentionextension known as Gray Wolf Ridge. The peaks of Gray Wolf Ridge -- '7076' (7076), Gray Wolf Mountain (7218), Baldy (6797), Shepster Summit (6537), and Tyler Peak (6364) -- are scalable for fit and determined day hikers; but mountanieering skills are necessary for Mount Deception itself and its closest northern basalt kin.