Mount Blue Sky, Colorado

Subpeaks	Mount Evans - West Peak (14,256 ft/4345 m) Mount Bierstadt - Southeast Peak (13,641 ft/4158 m)
Name Info	Local or Alternate Name(s):     Former Name: Mount Evans
Elevation Info	Summit: 14,264 feet NAVD88 Elevation (?): 14,270 ft / 4350 m
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	39.588255, -105.64377 (Dec Deg) 39° 35' 18'' N, 105° 38' 38'' W (DMS) 444719 E, 4382257 N, Zone 13 (UTM)
Map Source	US Geological Survey (1:24,000)     Sheet: Mount Evans (O39105e6)
Country	United States
State/Province	Colorado
County/Second Level Region	Clear Creek
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Mount Blue Sky":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Mount Evans at SummitPost      Blue Sky; Mount at ListsOfJohn      Mount Evans at Mountain-Forecast.com      Mount Evans at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio)      Mount Blue Sky at USGS-GNIS Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Colorado's Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs (Roach)        A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners (Borneman, Lampert)
Ascent Info Total ascents/attempts logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 1342      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 1219) Selected Trip Reports - Click on linked Date for full report: Date Climber Type GPS TR Words Link 2023-08-19 Mihm, Nathan TR-121 2023-07-22 Schafer, Eric TR-43 2023-07-18 J, P TR-138 2023-07-07 Lazorchak, Peter TR-25 2023-06-02 Pohanic, Ryan TR-7 2022-08-10 Sadowsky, Yossi TR-14 2022-08-10 Forster, Andy TR-136 2022-07-09 Keltgen, David TR-25 2022-06-23 Memon, Rafee TR-11 peakbagger.com 2021-09-08 Thomas, Jerry TR-75 2021-07-30 Kassan, Eric TR-45 flickr.com 2021-07-03 Ndirish35, Ndirish35 TR-266 2020-02-02 Hall, Whiley TR-30 14ers.com 2017-07-14 Wright, Mike TR-271 2016-07-17 Hiker, Swingshift TR-223 2016-07-14 Sierra, Marcus TR-6 2015-09-05 ONeill, Patrick 2014-08-21 Hildebrand, Dan TR-331 2014-06-22 McClellan, Paul 2013-08-09 Hensley, Richard 2013-07-28 Fitch, David TR-393 2012-09-08 Musser, William TR-536 2012-08-14 Woodall, Rob TR-757 peakbagger.com 2012-08-11 Quinlan, Dan TR-256 2011-10-16 ward, john TR-310 2009-09-12 Luzania, Josh TR-314 2009-08-03 Pirate 🏴‍☠, Peak TR-2 2008-10-18 Foster, David TR-623 2008-08-09 Mullen, Luke TR-204 1973-06-30 Miller, SueAnn TR-285
Peak Lists that contain Mount Blue Sky      USA 48-States 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #17)      Colorado 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #14)      Customary Western USA Fourteeners (Rank #17)      14ers.com Colorado Fourteeners (Rank #14)      United States 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #38)      North America 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #59)      Colorado Centennial Peaks (Top 100) (Rank #14)      United States 13,750-foot Peaks (Rank #38)      Colorado 13,700-foot Peaks (Rank #14)      Colorado Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #28)      Colorado Wilderness High Points (Rank #6)      Colorado 13,500 foot Peaks (Rank #14)      (Alternate) Colorado County Prominence Peaks (Rank #24)      Colorado Thirteeners (Rank #14)      Colorado Peaks with 1000 feet of Prominence (Rank #28)
Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Mount Blue Sky      Elevation Ladder from Mount Blue Sky      Prominence Ladder from Mount Blue Sky
Renamed 2023-09-15: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/gaz-record/204716

View of Summit Lake from the top (2010-08-28). Photo by Jared Salzmann. Click here for larger-size photo.
Web Map Links	Peakfinder Panorama GeoHack Links   CalTopo   MyTopo   Bing Maps Google Maps   Open Street Map
Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 2744 ft/837 m   Optimistic Prominence: 2784 ft/849 m   Line Parent: Grays Peak   Key Col: East of Guanella Pass    11,520 ft/3511 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 9.78 mi/15.74 km    Isolation Limit Point: 39.6333, -105.8175 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Grays Peak  (WNW)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Rocky Mountains Range3: Southern Rocky Mountains Range4: Front Range Range5: Central Front Range Range6: Mount Evans Area (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	South Platte Platte Missouri Mississippi Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest/Pike and San Isabel National Forest Wilderness/Special Area: Mount Evans Wilderness Area (Highest Point)
First Ascent	1863     Bierstadt, Albert     Ludlow, Fitzhugh
Route #1	Paved Road: Mount Evans Road
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
Dynamic Map  Mount Blue Sky   ( Key Col)    Other Peaks Click Here for a Full Screen Map

Other Photos

Mt Evans summit from Mt Bierstadt summit (2006-06-03). Click here for larger-size photo.   Edit Photo Info

From summit of Mount Evans, tracing traverse from the parking lot below to Mount Warren (at end of finger) then climbing Mount Spalding 13,842 feet left side of photo and around the lake to the summit (2012-09-08). Photo by William Musser. Click here for larger-size photo.

Ingrid and Eric on the summit (2019-07-29). Photo by Eric Smith. Click here for larger-size photo.

Top of Mt. Evans (2019-08-16). Photo by Ted Bauer. Click here for larger-size photo.

Eric and Ingrid hanging out on the summit of Mt Evans (2019-07-29). Photo by Ingrid Dockersmith. Click here for larger-size photo.

Scot Marburger with Wynne Benti on the summit of Mt. Evans who rode their BMW motorcycles from California to Nauvoo, Illinois and back, stopping at Mt. Evans and Pike's Peak, for two drive-up fourteeners (2012-07-25). Photo by Wynne Benti. Click here for larger-size photo.

Looking down at the observatory and crowded parking lot (2018-09-02). Photo by Michael Kwok. Click here for larger-size photo.

The Fellas on Grays Peak. (2000-07-23). Photo by Jeremy McGuire. Click here for larger-size photo.

On the summit of Mt Evans with nephew Kevin (1993-07-08). Photo by Dieter Hils. Click here for larger-size photo.

Summit Lake seen from top of Mt Evans (1992-09-13). Photo by Dieter Hils. Click here for larger-size photo.

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