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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 by Roger W. Toll in honor of his alma mater, Columbia University,[1][2][3][4] and in commemoration of its rowing victory at the renowned Henley Royal Regatta in 1878.[5]

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]
Parent peak	Mount Harvard
Isolation	1.90 mi (3.06 km)[3]
Listing	Colorado Fourteener 35th
Coordinates	38°54′14″N 106°17′51″W[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[citation needed]
Easiest route	Scramble

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 a notoriously challenging scree field located on the standard route, Mount Columbia is usually only climbed by those wishing to climb all of Colorado's fourteeners. The forest service recommends that hikers take the user-created Horn Fork Basin Route, an 11-mile roundtrip that gains 5,800 feet in elevation. The area near the scree field is severely eroded, and although there are efforts to build a new trail to replace the current user-created trail, the formal trail has not yet been completed.[6]

See also

• List of mountain peaks of Colorado
  • List of Colorado fourteeners

References

External links

• Mt. Columbia and Mt. Harvard on 14ers.com
• Mount Columbia on Summitpost
• Mount Columbia on Bivouac

На других языках

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Le mont Columbia, en anglais Mount Columbia, est un sommet montagneux américain dans le comté de Chaffee, au Colorado. Il culmine à 4 289 mètres d'altitude dans les pics Collegiate. Il est protégé au sein de la forêt nationale de San Isabel et de la Collegiate Peaks Wilderness.

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