Mount Columbia (Colorado)

Mount Columbia

Mount Columbia as seen from Mount Harvard
Highest point
Elevation 14,077 ft (4,291 m) [1][2]
Prominence 893 ft (272 m) [3]
Isolation 1.90 mi (3.06 km) [3]
Parent peak Mount Harvard
Listing Colorado Fourteener 35th
Coordinates 38°54′14″N 106°17′51″W / 38.9039357°N 106.2974989°W / 38.9039357; -106.2974989Coordinates: 38°54′14″N 106°17′51″W / 38.9039357°N 106.2974989°W / 38.9039357; -106.2974989 [1]
Geography
Mount Columbia

Colorado

Location Chaffee County, Colorado, U.S.[4]
Parent range Sawatch Range,
Collegiate Peaks[3]
Topo map USGS 7.5' topographic map
Mount Columbia, Colorado[1]
Climbing
First ascent 1916 by Roger Toll
Easiest route Scramble
For other mountains by this name, see Mount Columbia.

Mount Columbia is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,077-foot (4,291 m) fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 9.9 miles (16.0 km) northwest by west (bearing 301°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named in honor of Columbia University in the City of New York[1][2][3][4] and in commemoration of its rowing victory at the renowned Henley Royal Regatta in 1878.[5]

Mountain

Along with nearby Mount Harvard, Mount Yale, Mount Princeton, and Mount Oxford, Mount Columbia is one of five Collegiate Peaks named for prominent universities. Due to an awful scree field located on the standard route, Mount Columbia is usually only climbed by those wishing to climb all of Colorado's fourteeners.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "COLUMBIA PK". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
  2. 1 2 The elevation of Mount Columbia includes an adjustment of +2.081 m (+6.83 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Mount Columbia, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Mount Columbia". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Mount Columbia". Columbia Spectator (Vol III, No 1). New York, NY: Columbia Spectator. 1 Oct 1878. p. 3. Retrieved 24 June 2016.


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