The Brothers

The climb of The Brothers is popular, but the mountain has 
taken its toll of lives. Although no technical difficulties 
are involved, the ascent is long and strenuous. The 
approach is via The Brothers Trail. Beyond The Brothers 
Camp (3000 ft/ 914 m), a faint path utilized by climbers 
angles to the northwest and ascends timbered slopes to the 
base of a steep, snow-filled chute, where it disappears. 
The climbing route then follows this "roller coaster path" 
to the top of the south peak (1.5 mi/2.4 km; 6866 ft/2093 
m). The last few feet are a rock scramble. 

One of the most conspicuous landmarks visible from Puget 
Sound, the quadrangular, double-peaked mountain known as 
The Brothers rises abruptly, less than eight miles from 
tidewater. The south peak is slightly higher than the north 
peak. George Davidson, the surveyor of Puget Sound, named 
the mountain in 1856 for Edward and Arthur Fauntleroy, 
brothers of Ellinor and Constance Fauntleroy, for whom he 
named Mount Ellinor and Mount Constance. Apparently 
Davidson didn't specifically name each peak, but the south 
one is sometimes called Mount Edward, the north one Mount 
Arthur.