Dr. Warren Spickard, for whom this peak is named, died in a tragic accident while climbing a nearby peak NW Mox or 'Easy Mox'.
While descending Depot Creek in 2001 our party met a group consisting of Dr Spickard's children and some other relatives who were going in to climb Mt Spickard to leave a memorial in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Spickard's tragic and untimely death.
The following excerpt is from the American Alpine Journal: On August 20, 1961, the northwest mountaineering fraternity lost one of its most beloved members when Dr. Warren B. Spickard fell to his death while descending from the summit of the northwest peak of the Mox Peaks in the Chilliwack Range of the North Cascades. Dr. Spickard with Duke Watson and Phil Sharpe, also Cascade Section members, had just begun the descent of a thirty-foot-high, nearly vertical pitch. All three were roped together and moving one at a time. Watson and Sharpe had climbed down and were in good belay positions. Dr. Spickard had just started down when he dislodged a large rock, which knocked him over backward. The rock then fell on the climbing rope at a point where it crossed a rock projection, cutting it in two twelve feet from his body. He then bounded down a steep ice-filled rock chute and finally over a high cliff. His body was recovered and buried below a large rock cairn at the foot of this cliff near the col between the Mox Peaks, at approximately 7500 feet elevation. Since the area is most remote, removal of the body was impractical. It was the wish of his family that "Spick" remain in the mountains that he loved.
