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Photograph by Melissa Farlow
Rising nearly 8,000 feet (2,400 meters), Mount Olympus, at top center, and its sister peaks govern weather. When sodden ocean air blows in, the mountains force it to high elevations where it cools, releasing moisture: more than 200 inches (500 centimeters) of precipitation—mostly snow—a year.
