Jagged Mountain (Colorado)

Coordinates: 37°38′44″N 107°35′02″W / 37.6455547°N 107.5839486°W / 37.6455547; -107.5839486
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Jagged Mountain
Jagged Mountain is located in Colorado
Jagged Mountain
Jagged Mountain
Highest point
Elevation13,830 ft (4,215 m)[2][3]
Prominence964 ft (294 m)[3]
Parent peakPacific Peak[3]
Isolation1.42 mi (2.29 km)[3]
Coordinates37°38′44″N 107°35′02″W / 37.6455547°N 107.5839486°W / 37.6455547; -107.5839486[1]
Geography
LocationSan Juan County, Colorado, U.S.[1]
Parent rangeSan Juan Mountains,
Needle Mountains[3]
Topo map(s)USGS 7.5' topographic map
Storm King Peak, Colorado[1]
Climbing
First ascent5 members of the San Juan Mountaineers led by Dwight G. Lavender, August 1933
Easiest routeNorth Face[4]

Jagged Mountain is a

bearing 159°) of the Town of Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, United States.[2][3][1]

The first ascent of the peak was made from the south in August 1933 by a party of five members of the San Juan Mountaineers led by Dwight G. Lavender, who described it as “the most difficult peak yet ascended in the Colorado Rockies”.[5] The following year Bill House and Elizabeth Woolsey put up a new route and found a descent down the north side of the peak, their descent route is now the most commonly used route on the peak.[6][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Jagged Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
  2. ^
    NGVD 29 to NAVD 88
    .
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Jagged Mountain, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Jagged Mountain, Colorado". Summit Post. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  5. ISSN 0065-6925
    . Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  6. ^ "1934 Elizabeth Woolsey and William P. House make the second ascent of Jagged Mountain in the San Juan Mountains via a new route" (PDF). Trail and Timberline. No. 1012. Colorado Mountain Club. 2011. p. 20. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
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