Information About

The Snow Towers

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Location

58 ° 37' 41.002" N,
134 ° 30' 40" W

Region

Juneau

Nearest City

Parent

Coast Mountains

Elevation

6663 ft (2030.88 m)

The Snow Towers in Detail.

About

Two peaks 0.1 mi apart, in the Coast Mountains, 1.7 mi SSW of Snowpatch Crag and 23 mi NNW of Juneau.

History

Named by members of the Juneau Icefield Research Project in 1964.

Topo Maps

Juneau (1951), Juneau (1951), Juneau (1951), Juneau (1951), Juneau C-2 (1960), Juneau C-2 (1960), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau C-2 NW (2017),

Places Near The Snow Towers

Basins:

Lower Basin, Middle Basin, Upper Basin,

Cliffs:

Two Echo Cliffs,

Dams:

Nugget Creek Dam,

Glaciers:

Battle Glacier, Eagle Glacier, Echo Glacier, Gilkey Glacier, Herbert Glacier, Juneau Icefield, Leaking Glacier, Mendenhall Glacier, Nugget Creek Glacier, Thiel Glacier, West Branch Taku Glacier,

Hills:

Lakes:

Mendenhall Lake, Nugget Creek, Windfall Lake,

Mountains:

Mount Adolph Knopf, Amherst Peak, Mount Blachnitzky, Bullard Mountain, Camp 15 Peak, Carpet Peak, Cathedral Peak, Dike Mountain, The Dukes, Echo Mountain, Emperor Peak, Mount Ernest Gruening, Flower Tower, Folded Towers, Glacier Grub Tower, Glacier King, Horn Spire, Knowl, Little Matterhorn, McGinnis Mountain, Mustang Peak, North Nugget Spire, Nugget Mountain, Princess Peak, Rhino Peak, Shoehorn Mountain, The Snow Towers, Snowdrift Peak, Snowpatch Crag, Snowpatch Craig, Spencer Peak, Stroller White Mountain, Taku Towers, Treasury Hill, Triangle Peak, Tricouni Peak, The Tusk, Mount Wrather,

Mountain Passes:

Echo Pass, Echo Pass, Igloo Pass,

Mountain Ranges:

Ridges:

Berners Peaks, Icefall Spires, Mendenhall Towers, Nugget Towers, The Wall,

Streams:

Bacon Creek, Canyon Creek, Fall Creek, Goat Creek, Goose Creek, McGinnis Creek, Nugget Creek, Slate Creek, Steep Creek, Vista Creek,

Routes:

Mount McGinnis Trail, Montana Creek Trail, Nugget Creek Trail, Spaulding Trail, West Glacier Trail,

Valleys:

Avalanche Canyon, Death Valley,