This is Little Glass Mountain, which is basically one huge ass pile of obsidian.

It’s located in Sátíttla Highlands National Monument (designated by Biden in 2025), which protects the landscape around Medicine Lake—by far the largest volcano in the Cascades by volume (10x the size of Mt St Helens).

A hand is holding a small, shiny black rock with a rocky hillside and clear blue sky in the background.A sloping hillside covered with a dense layer of large, dark rocks is bordered by trees under a clear blue sky.Three tall pine trees stand in front of a rocky hillside under a clear blue sky.