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The standard route up Quandary Peak is a trail hike , starting from a trailhead about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Hoosier Pass and climbing the east ridge. It is a popular fourteener to climb because of the relatively easy ascent and its proximity to Denver and Breckenridge.
This is a complete list of the 53 fourteeners in the U.S. State of Colorado with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence. See the main fourteener article , which has a list of all of the fourteeners in the United States, for some information about how such lists are determined and caveats about elevation and ranking accuracy.
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener (also spelled 14er) is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 ft (4267 m). The 96 fourteeners in the United States are all west of the Mississippi River. Colorado has the most (53) of any single state; Alaska is second with 29.
West Ridge: Hike, class 2 [5] Mount Lincoln is the eighth-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado . The prominent 14,291-foot (4355.79 m) fourteener is the highest summit of the Mosquito Range and the eleventh-highest summit in the contiguous United States .
A trail difficulty rating system, also known as walking track grading system, walk gradings or trail grades, is a classification system for trails or walking paths based on their relative technical and physical difficulty. [1] A trail difficulty rating system informs visitors about the attributes of walking tracks and helps visitors ...
Mount Belford is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 14,199.6-foot (4,328 m) fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 15.0 miles (24.1 km) northwest by west (bearing 307°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.
3.5 mile (5.6 km) hike on Grays Peak Trail Grays Peak is the tenth-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado . The prominent 14,276-foot (4351.18 m) fourteener is the highest summit of the Front Range and the highest point on the Continental Divide and the Continental Divide Trail in North America.
North Slope: Difficult Hike, class 2 [4] Challenger Point is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America . The 14,087-foot (4,294 m) fourteener is located 5.0 miles (8.1 km) east by south ( bearing 102°) of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County , Colorado , United States .