Hillman Peak is an 8,151 feet (2,484 m) summit on the west rim of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park , Oregon . It is the highest peak on the caldera rim and ranks as the second-highest peak in the park. It is situated 1.5 mile northwest of Wizard Island . Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,973 feet above the lake in 0.57 mile. Rim Drive traverses the western slope of the peak. Precipitation runoff from the peak's east slope drains into Crater Lake whereas the west slope drains to the Rogue River via Copeland Creek .
11-576: Hillman Peak was named by William Gladstone Steel for John Wesley Hillman (1832–1915), a prospector who discovered Crater Lake on June 12, 1853. The peak's "Hillman Peak" toponym was officially adopted in 1928 by the United States Board on Geographic Names . Variant names prior to 1928 included Glacier Peak and Maxwell Peak. Based on the Köppen climate classification , Hillman Peak has a subalpine climate . Most weather fronts originate in
22-459: A contemporary interpretive Park Ranger . Steel publicized Crater Lake by hosting the Mazamas convention and mountain climbing tour in 1896. Hundreds of people, including politicians, scientists and climbers, spent three weeks in the area. At the close of the convention, fireworks were lit on Wizard Island , and the group ceremoniously christened the volcano that once stood where the lake is, which
33-552: Is often little or no cloud cover during the summer. Hillman Peak was created when Mount Mazama , a large stratovolcano erupted violently approximately 7,700 years ago and formed on the caldera rim. The peak is the remnant of a parasitic cone on the western flank of Mount Mazama , such that when the caldera formed, the eastern half of the Hillman cone disappeared. The peak is composed of lava flows containing pyroxene and hornblende andesites and breccias . Evidence suggests that
44-457: The Klamath people had called giiwas for 10,000 years, calling it Mount Mazama . Steel's lobbying led to the designation of Crater Lake National Park as the sixth US National Park. He was not the first superintendent of the park, but did manage to get the first superintendent ousted in what was known as the "Crater Lake Rumble". Steel believed it was important to develop the lake to bring
55-772: The United States Congress to designate Crater Lake as a National Park . Steel was from Ohio , and worked in the newspaper business before becoming a mail carrier . William Steel was born on September 7, 1854, in Stafford, Ohio , to Elizabeth Lawrie and William Steel, Scottish -born abolitionists who were active in the Underground Railroad . Steel's brother, George A. Steel , became Oregon State Treasurer . His sister, Jane, attended St. Mary's School in Medford, Oregon . On March 25, 1868
66-575: The Crater Lake area, winter lasts eight months with an average snowfall of 41 feet (12.5 m) per year. Rim Drive is only open during the summer due to the heavy snowfall as the road is covered by more than 20 feet (6.1 m) of snow with drifts as deep as 60 feet (18 m) in some areas. During winter months, weather is usually cloudy, but due to high pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer months, there
77-478: The Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Cascades where they are forced upward by the range ( Orographic lift ), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall. As a result, the Cascades experience high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. Winter temperatures can drop below 10 °F (−12 °C) with wind chill factors below 0 °F (−18 °C). In
88-637: The Steel family moved from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a farm near Oswego, Kansas . While a schoolboy in Kansas, in May 1870, Steel read an article, in the newspaper wrapping his lunch, about the discovery of Crater Lake. Steel first visited Crater Lake in 1885, traveling by railroad and then stagecoach to Fort Klamath . He then walked 20 miles (32 km), arriving at the lake on August 15, 1885. Steel published an article describing his reactions as he viewed
99-587: The lake for the first time in the March 1886 issue of West Shore magazine. Steel was a member of the Portland Alpine Club, the first alpine club in the West, and then helped found Mazamas after the Portland Alpine Club folded. Steel guided influential people around the Crater Lake area, leading nature hikes and giving campfire lectures about the lake's geography, plants and animals, much like
110-477: The pre-eruption Hillman cone acted as a cleaver which was never entirely covered by glacial ice. According to the Global Volcanism Program (GVP) , Hillman Peak is classified as a subfeature stratovolcano of Mount Mazama. William Gladstone Steel William Gladstone Steel (September 7, 1854 – October 21, 1934) was an American journalist who was known for campaigning for 17 years for
121-445: The public to the lake, including selling the idea of a lodge and an encircling road at the crater's rim, but he also envisioned an elevator to take people to the lake's surface, and roads around the lake itself and to Wizard Island for cars. After three years, Steel was removed as superintendent of the park. Steel became known as "The Judge", and the "father of Crater Lake", described as a "one-man chamber of commerce". He last visited
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