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Mount Blaurock

Coordinates: 39°00′40″N 106°27′13″W / 39.0111039°N 106.4536381°W / 39.0111039; -106.4536381
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Mount Blaurock
Mount Blaurock is located in Colorado
Mount Blaurock
Mount Blaurock
Highest point
Elevation13,623 ft (4,152 m)[2][3]
Prominence436 ft (133 m)[3]
Parent peakLa Plata Peak[3]
Isolation1.62 mi (2.61 km)[3]
Coordinates39°00′40″N 106°27′13″W / 39.0111039°N 106.4536381°W / 39.0111039; -106.4536381[1]
Geography
LocationChaffee County, Colorado, U.S.[1]
Parent rangeSawatch Range,
Collegiate Peaks[3]
Topo mapUSGS 7.5' topographic map
Mount Elbert, Colorado[1]

Mount Blaurock is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,623-foot (4,152 m) thirteener is located in San Isabel National Forest, 21.1 miles (33.9 km) northwest by west (bearing 307°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.[2][3][1] Mount Blaurock was named in honor of Carl Blaurock, a co-founder of the Colorado Mountain Club and one of the first two persons to climb all of Colorado's fourteeners.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mount Blaurock". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
  2. ^ a b The elevation of Mount Blaurock includes an adjustment of +1.995 m (+6.55 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Mount Blaurock, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
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