Mount Evans
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N 39° 35.317 W 105° 38.567
13S E 444804 N 4382295
A drive-up summit, or an all-day climb!
Waymark Code: WM7RYM
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2009
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"Mount Evans is a mountain in the Front Range region of the Rocky Mountains, in Clear Creek County, Colorado. It is one of 54 fourteeners (mountains with peaks over 14,000 feet) in Colorado, and the closest fourteener to Denver. It is often compared to Pikes Peak - another Front Range fourteener - which it exceeds in elevation by 154 ft (50 m). Mount Evans dominates the Denver Metropolitan Statistical Area skyline and can be seen as far south as Castle Rock (60 miles to the south of the mountain) and as far north as Broomfield (73 miles north of the mountain), and as far east as Bennett (89 miles east of the mountain).
Mount Evans was originally known as Mount Rosa or Mount Rosalie (named for the wife of Fitz Hugh Ludlow who would later be the wife of Albert Bierstadt, and featured in Bierstadt's painting "Storm in the Rocky Mountains"), and is located in what is known by locals as the Chicago Peaks Range. It is believed to have been climbed first in 1872 by Judge Lunt and a friend, but many accounts point to Albert Bierstadt as the first ascender in 1863. In 1895, Colorado's legislature officially renamed the peak in honor of John Evans, second governor of the Colorado Territory from 1862 to 1865."
~ Text quoted from Wikipedia
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