West Peak is a 7,365-foot-elevation (2,245 m) summit in the Olympic Mountains, in Jefferson County of Washington state.
[3] Rising in the center of Olympic National Park, it is the highest peak on the Anderson Massif.
[4] Legend has it that the mountain's name is for Mr. West, a participant in the 1890 O'Neil Expedition, rather than for its apparent position on the Anderson Massif.
As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snow.
[10] The mountains were sculpted during the Pleistocene era by erosion and glaciers advancing and retreating multiple times.