Mount Adams (Colorado)

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Mount Adams
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View of Mount Adams from the south
Highest point
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Geography
Mount Adams is located in Colorado
Mount Adams
Mount Adams
Location Custer and Saguache counties, Colorado, United States[3]
Parent range Sangre de Cristo Range, Crestones[2]
Topo map USGS 7.5' topographic map
Horn Peak, Colorado[3]
Climbing
Easiest route Scramble Class 3

Mount Adams is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,937-foot (4,248 m) thirteener is located in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, 5.1 miles (8.2 km) east by north (bearing 81°) of the Town of Crestone, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating San Isabel National Forest and Custer County from Rio Grande National Forest and Saguache County.[1][2][3]

Climbing

Mount Adams can be climbed using Class 3 routes via the west ridge (Willow Lake), via the southeast face (Horn Creek Trailhead), or via the north west ridge (South Crestone Lake Trailhead).

See also

References

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