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Best summit hikes in Colorado [electronic resource] : an opinionated guide to 50+ ascents of classic and little-known peaks from 8,144 to 14,433 feet.

by Dziezynski, James.

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Berkeley : Wilderness Press, 2012.

Hiking -- Colorado -- Guidebooks.

Mountaineering -- Colorado -- Guidebooks.

Trails -- Colorado -- Guidebooks.

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1 online resource (369 p.)

Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Peak Locator Map; List of Peaks and Elevations; Contents; Preface; Trip Outtakes; The Colorado Rocky Mountains; Safety in the Mountains; Hiking Ethics; Using This Book; The Hikes; 1 James Peak; 2 Navajo Peak; 3 Jasper Peak; 4 Green Mountain, Bear Peak, and South Boulder Peak; 5 Lead Mountain; 6 Clark Peak; 7 Mount Richthofen; 8 Longs Peak; 9 Mount Alice; 10 Mount Ida-Chief Cheley Peak Traverse; 11 Mount Chapin-Mount Chiquita-Ypsilon Mountain Traverse; 12 Mount Sniktau-Grizzly Peak Traverse; 13 The Citadel; 14 Peak 1-Tenmile Peak Traverse.

15 Pacific Peak16 Mount Powell; 17 Deming Mountain; 18 Stanley Mountain and Vasquez Peak; 19 Mount Elbert; 20 Mount Sherman-Gemini Peak-Dyer Mountain Traverse; 21 Mount Hope; 22 Huron Peak; 23 Mount Ouray; 24 Carbonate Mountain-Tabeguache Peak Circuit; 25 Mount Yale; 26 Fools Peak; 27 Mount Thomas; 28 Mount of the Holy Cross; 29 Bison Peak; 30 Mount Zirkel; 31 Hahns Peak; 32 Geissler Mountain Rim Walk; 33 Summit Peak; 34 Hesperus Mountain; 35 Mount Sopris; 36 Treasury Mountain; 37 Belleview Mountain; 38 East Beckwith Mountain-Far East Peak Traverse; 39 West Spanish Peak.

40 Blanca Peak-Ellingwood Point Traverse41 Mount Adams; 42 Eureka Mountain-Hermit Peak; 43 Windom Peak-Sunlight Peak-Mount Eolus; 44 Cross Mountain-Base of Lizard Head Traverse; 45 Storm King Peak; 46 Uncompahgre Peak; 47 Redcloud Peak-Sunshine Peak Traverse; 48 Golden Horn; 49 Mount Sneffels; 50 Lone Cone; Afterword; Beyond the Book; Appendix A: "Best" Hikes and Others of Note; Appendix B: Mountain Miscellany; Appendix C: Colorado's 100 Highest Peaks; Appendix D: Works Consulted/Recommended Reading; Index.

Colorado has 53 14ers, more than 600 13ers, and hundreds of other peaks that can be reached without special equipment or expertise. Numerous guides dryly catalog these trails, but Best Summit Hikes in Colorado stands out from them all. Author James Dziezynski has meticulously selected 80+ of the state's absolute best peaks in more than 50 superlative hikes, and his opinionated narrative brings each route to life. Each summit is included because of a notable feature?whether it's the site of a ghost mine or airplane wreckage, has thundering waterfalls or colorful floral meadows, is t.

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