Longs Peak

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Longs Peak

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Lynn Sprowl

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Photograph - Photography

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Longs Peak by Lynn Sprowl.
My husband and son hiked it...I tried but failed. I got as far as Peacock Pool and pooped out. I did this back in my "hiking days". Today, I hike to a candy store in Estes Park...sheesh!
Highest point Elevation 14,259 ft .
North America highest peaks 42nd US highest major peaks
28th Colorado highest major peaks 13th
Colorado fourteeners 15th
Colorado county high points 14th
First ascent1868 by John Wesley Powell and party
Easiest route Keyhole (scramble) Class 3+
Longs Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,259-foot (4346 m) fourteener is located in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness. The mountain was named in honor of explorer Stephen Harriman Long.Longs Peak can be prominently seen from Longmont, Colorado, as well as from most of the northern Front Range. As the only fourteener in Rocky Mountain National Park, the peak has long been of interest to climbers. The easiest route is not "technical" during the summer season. It was probably first used by pre-Columbian indigenous people collecting eagle feathers.
The first recorded ascent was in August 23, 1868 by the surveying party of John Wesley Powell via the south side. The East Face of the mountain is 1,675 feet steep and is surmounted by a 1,000 feet steep sheer cliff known as "The Diamond" (so-named because of its shape, approximately that of a cut diamond seen from the side and inverted. The easiest route on the face is the Casual Route first climbed in 1977. It has since become the most popular route up the wall.

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