While Mount Adams, Rainier and St. Helens are further from Portland than our beloved Mount Hood, each of them offers a host of adventures within a day’s drive from the city.

At over 12,200 feet, monstrous Mount Adams is Washington’s second-highest peak, looking up only to Mount Rainier (14,411 feet). Native American tribes call it Pahto or Klickitat.

A group of researchers say they've found evidence that some of the explosive peaks are connected via a massive body of magma that stretches between Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams and Mount Rainier.

Mount Saint Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, and Glacier Peak are four of the active volcanoes in Washington state. The fifth, located less than 70 miles from Seattle, is Mount Rainier.

Mount Adams, the long-dormant ... Though Mount Adams, at 12,307 feet, is the second-tallest peak in Washington after Mount Rainier, it is probably the second most obscure, after Glacier Peak.