Mt. Constance and The Brothers

The Brothers

The Olympic Range provides a spectacular backdrop as we look out to the west over Elliott Bay and Bainbridge Island. From Seattle, two peaks stand out above all others -- The Brothers and Mt. Constance. The Brothers are a pair of tall peaks in the southern portion of the range. The south peak, at 6,842' , is slightly higher than the north. Mt. Constance, in the northern part of the range, is even more visually prominent, standing 7,756' in height.

Mr. Constance was named in 1857 by George Davidson, a surveyor, in honor of his bride-to-be's sister, Constance Fauntleroy. The Brothers were named for her brothers, Arthur and Edward Fauntleroy. See http://www.historylink.org/. Fauntleroy itself is the name of the small West Seattle community that serves as the eastern terminus of the Washington State Department of Transportation's Vashon ferry.

The Federal Communications Commission web site includes a formula for calculating the distance between two sets of known GPS coordinates: http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/distance.html.
Using the GPS coordinates for Bell Harbor Marina (47° 36.36' N, 122° 20.53' W) and The Brothers (47° 39.23' N, 123° 08.46' W), the FCC formula indicates that The Brothers lie 37.3 miles west of our Elliott Bay overlook. Mt. Constance lies a similar distance away.