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Grizzly Peak (Colorado)

Index Grizzly Peak (Colorado)

Grizzly Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. [1]

33 relations: Absolute bearing, Andesite, Breccia, Chaffee County, Colorado, Collegiate Peaks, Colorado, Continental Divide of the Americas, Elevation, Fourteener, Front Range, Grizzly Peak (Summit County, Colorado), Independence Pass (Colorado), Lava, List of mountain peaks of Colorado, List of mountain peaks of North America, List of mountain peaks of the United States, List of the highest major summits of Colorado, List of the highest major summits of North America, List of the highest major summits of the United States, Mountain, North America, Oligocene, Pitkin County, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, San Isabel National Forest, San Juan Mountains, Sawatch Range, Scrambling, Summit, Thirteener, Topographic prominence, United States, White River National Forest.

Absolute bearing

In nautical navigation the absolute bearing is the clockwise angle between north and an object observed from the vessel.

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Andesite

Andesite is an extrusive igneous, volcanic rock, of intermediate composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.

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Breccia

Breccia is a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix that can be similar to or different from the composition of the fragments.

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Chaffee County, Colorado

Chaffee County is one of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Collegiate Peaks

The Collegiate Peaks (or Collegiate Range) is a name given to a section of the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains located in central Colorado.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Continental Divide of the Americas

The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Continental Gulf of Division, or merely the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas.

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Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).

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Fourteener

In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least.

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Front Range

The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado, and southeastern portion of the U.S. State of Wyoming.

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Grizzly Peak (Summit County, Colorado)

Grizzly Peak is a high mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

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Independence Pass (Colorado)

Independence Pass, originally known as Hunter Pass, is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.

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Lava

Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.

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List of mountain peaks of Colorado

This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence.

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List of mountain peaks of North America

This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence.

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List of mountain peaks of the United States

This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence.

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List of the highest major summits of Colorado

The following sortable table comprises the 117 highest mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado with at least of elevation and at least of topographic prominence.

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List of the highest major summits of North America

The following sortable table comprises the 200 highest mountain peaks of greater North AmericaThis article defines greater North America as the portion of the continental landmass of the Americas extending westward and northward from the Isthmus of Panama plus the ocean islands surrounding that landmass.

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List of the highest major summits of the United States

The following sortable table comprises the 200 highest mountain peaks of the United States with at least of topographic prominence.

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Mountain

A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Pitkin County, Colorado

Pitkin County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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San Isabel National Forest

San Isabel National Forest is located in central Colorado.

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San Juan Mountains

The San Juan Mountains are a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico.

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Sawatch Range

The Sawatch Range The place name "Sawatch" is pronounced.

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Scrambling

Scrambling (also known as alpine scrambling) is "a walk up steep terrain involving the use of one's hands".

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Summit

A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it.

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Thirteener

In mountaineering in the United States, a thirteener is a mountain that exceeds above mean sea level, similar to the more familiar "fourteeners," which exceed.

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Topographic prominence

In topography, prominence characterizes the height of a mountain or hill's summit by the vertical distance between it and the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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White River National Forest

White River National Forest is a National Forest in northwest Colorado.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Peak_(Colorado)

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