I beheld what made me perfectly sick and dizzy to look at
- the terminal Peak itself -
a smooth, cracked face or wall of pink granite, as nearly perpendicular
as anything could well be up which it was possible to climb.
– Isabella Bird upon spying the Homestretch on Longs Peak in 1873 |
Colorado’s Classic Peaks
– Alphabetized by peak name |
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Anvil Mountain in the San Juans (12,537’) |
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Mount Baldy in the Elk Range (12,805’) |
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Belleview Mountain in the Elk Range (13,233’) |
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Chair Mountain in the Elk Range (12,721’) |
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Cinnamon Mountain B in the Elk Range (12,293’) |
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Keller Mountain in the Gore Range (13,085’) |
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“North Anvil” in the San Juans (12,296’) |
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“Outpost Peak” in the Gore Range (12,362’) |
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“Peak L” in the Gore Range (13,213’) |
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Point 13,212 in the Sawatch Range (13,212’) |
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Point 12,220 B in the Front Range’s Rawahs (12,220’) |
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Precarious Peak in the Elk Range (13,380’) |
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Purple Mountain in the Elk Range (12,958’) |
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Peaks “R” and “S” in the Gore Range (12,995’ & 12,857’) |
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Mount Ridgway in the San Juans (13,468’) |
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“Siberia Peak” in the Elk Range (13,420’) |
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Snowmass Mountain in the Elk Range (14,092’) |
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Teocalli Mountain in the Elk Range (13,208’) |
