Never Summer Peak
The counterintuitive direction of water flow is because the Continental Divide forms a loop in this area, whereby the peak's west slope runoff flows to the Atlantic Ocean and the east slope to the Pacific.Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,050 feet (625 meters) above Baker Gulch in one mile (1.6 km) and 1,050 feet (320 meters) above Parika Lake in 0.6 miles (0.97 km).The mountain's toponym has not been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names.[4] According to the Köppen climate classification system, Never Summer Peak is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers.[5] Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter, and as thunderstorms in summer, with a dry period in late spring.