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Fourteeners

Fifty-eight peaks in Colorado rise above fourteen thousand feet.

Kyle Wisniewski seated on a granite outcrop high above a lake, a winding road in the basin below and blue mountain ranges beyond.
On the climb of Mount Blue Sky.
Classification
Athletics · Personal context
Peaks summited
16 / 58
Highest
Mount Harvard · 14,420′
Elevations
Traditional (pre-LiDAR)
A red rubble summit with a ridge falling away into wide valleys under towering cumulus clouds.
Maroon Peak, from the summit.

The log

  • Harvard & Columbia — 2 Colorado fourteeners

    Mount Harvard
    14,420′
    Mount Columbia
    14,073′

  • Mount Yale — 14,196 ft

    Mount Yale
    14,196′

  • Mount Blue Sky — 14,264 ft

    Mount Blue Sky
    14,264′
    1. An alpine lake below grey granite cliffs, green tundra in the foreground.

      A cirque lake on the way up Mount Blue Sky.

    2. A rocky slope falling to a lake and a winding road, ranges beyond.

      The lake and road below Mount Blue Sky.

  • The Decalibron — 4 Colorado fourteeners

    Mount Democrat
    14,148′
    Mount Cameron
    14,238′
    Mount Lincoln
    14,286′
    Mount Bross
    14,172′

    Kite Lake loop

  • Tabeguache & Shavano — 2 Colorado fourteeners

    Tabeguache Peak
    14,155′
    Mount Shavano
    14,229′

  • Missouri Mountain — 14,067 ft

    Missouri Mountain
    14,067′
    1. First light on a row of peaks above a grey valley, pink clouds overhead.

      First light on the approach to Missouri Mountain.

    2. Summit boulders above a wide basin with small tarns and peaks under cumulus clouds.

      The basin below Missouri Mountain, from the summit.

    3. Rugged grey peaks and dark forest beyond orange-stained scree.

      Peaks beyond the summit of Missouri Mountain.

  • Belford & Oxford — 2 Colorado fourteeners

    Mount Belford
    14,197′
    Mount Oxford
    14,153′

  • Maroon Peak — 14,156 ft

    Maroon Peak
    14,156′
    1. A low lake ringed with driftwood below a steep peak lit by first sun.

      Crater Lake on the approach to Maroon Peak.

    2. From summit rubble, a long green valley runs between red, banded ridges.

      The valley below Maroon Peak, from the summit.

  • Grays & Torreys — 2 Colorado fourteeners

    Grays Peak
    14,270′
    Torreys Peak
    14,267′
    1. Summit scree in the foreground, a tan ridge and layered ranges beyond under a blue sky.

      From the summit of Grays.

    2. A dark pyramidal peak with a trail on its flank, hazy ranges behind.

      From the summit of Torreys.