Mount Watson

Mt. Watson, Mt. Root, and Mt. Fairweather

NPS Photo

Elevation: 12,346 ft.

Named in 1924 for David Thompson Watson, 1844-1916, lawyer, who was U.S. Counsel of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal in 1903. Watson was born in Pennsylvania and received his law degree from Harvard Univ. The name was published in 1928 on IBC Sheet 12 (1951 atlas).

Source: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/1415646

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Successful Summits

Date	Route	Climbers
6/18/1974	East Ridge	Michael Allen, Walter Gove, Lawrence Dauelsberg, Alice, and Donald Liska
4/1999	North Face via North Ridge	Chris Trimble and Jim Earl