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A challenge for world class mountaineers, the Cirque is located in the Ragged Range, near Glacier Lake. The Cirque's most famous peak – a must for every serious climber - is the Lotus Flower Tower, featured in Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. The Vampire Spires are granite towers some 40 km away that challenge even the Cirque.
The wilderness is located in the Salmon and Scott Mountains, subranges of the Klamath Mountains region. The high, granitic and ultramafic peaks of the eastern half of the wilderness area are known as the Trinity Alps. Granite peaks at the core of the area are known as the White Trinities, reddish ultramafic peaks in the southeast are known as ...
Chimney Rock is a distinctive landmark and popular rock-climbing destination in the southern Selkirk Mountains. [1] [5] The mountain is situated six miles (9.7 km) east of Priest Lake on land managed by Idaho Panhandle National Forests. [5]
Granite Peak is a 6,729-foot (2,051 m) elevation summit located 16 mi (26 km) northeast of Palmer in the southern Talkeetna Mountains of the U.S. state of Alaska. This landmark of the Matanuska Valley is set midway between Palmer and Chickaloon , with the Glenn Highway traversing the southern base of this mountain.
Granite Peak, at an elevation of 12,807 feet (3,904 m) above sea level, [1] is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Montana, and the tenth-highest state high point in the nation. [3] It lies within the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in Park County , very near the borders of Stillwater County and Carbon County .
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Gibraltar Rock is a granite outcrop in the Porongurup National Park, south of Perth, in Western Australia. From the rock, which is 640 metres (2,100 feet) high, Albany and the Great Southern Ocean can be seen. Since the 1970s, the Rock, along with some other local peaks, has become a popular venue for rock climbers.