Mount Shavano

Mount Shavano
Esprit Point (left) and Mt. Shavano from the southeast
Highest point
Elevation14,228.3 ft (4,336.8 m)[1]
Prominence1,619 ft (493 m)[2]
Isolation3.78 mi (6.08 km)[2]
ListingColorado Fourteener 17th
Coordinates38°37′09″N 106°14′22″W / 38.6191541°N 106.2393278°W / 38.6191541; -106.2393278[3]
Geography
Mount Shavano is located in Colorado
Mount Shavano
Mount Shavano
LocationChaffee County, Colorado, U.S.[4]
Parent rangeSawatch Range[2]
Topo map(s)USGS 7.5' topographic map
Maysville, Colorado[3]
Climbing
Easiest routeEast Slopes: Hike, class 2[5]

Mount Shavano is a high mountain summit in the southern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,228.3-foot (4,337 m) fourteener is located in San Isabel National Forest, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north by west (bearing 350°) of the community of Maysville in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named in honor of Ute Chief Shavano.[3][6][2][4]

Mountain

Mount Shavano lies just east of the Continental Divide and just west of the Arkansas River rising 7,200 feet above the town of Salida in Chaffee County to the southeast. Mount Shavano lies in the south-central part of the Sawatch Range, north of Mount Ouray and Mount Chipeta and south of the Collegiate Peaks (including Mount Princeton, Mount Harvard, and Mount Yale). Mount Shavano is famous for the Angel of Shavano, a snow formation in the image of an angel that emerges on the east face of the mountain during snow melt each spring.[7]

Climbing

The standard route to the top is rated Class 2.[8]

A view of the summit of Mount Shavano during the summer hiking season.
Mount Shavano's summit, June 2017.

Historical names

  • Mount Chavanaux
  • Mount Shavano – 1981 [4]
  • Mount Usher
  • Shavano Peak – 1906 [4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Ahlgren, Kevin; Van Westrum, Derek; Shaw, Brian (April 2024). "Moving mountains: reevaluating the elevations of Colorado mountain summits using modern geodetic techniques". Journal of Geodesy. 98 29. doi:10.1007/s00190-024-01831-8. Open access icon
  2. ^ a b c d "Mount Shavano, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c "SHAVANO". NGS Data Sheet. National Geodetic Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d "Mount Shavano". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  5. ^ "Mt. Shavano Routes". 14ers.com.
  6. ^ The elevation of Mount Shavano includes an adjustment of +2.032 m (+6.67 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.
  7. ^ Louis W. Dawson II, Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 1, Blue Clover Press, 1994, ISBN 0-9628867-1-8
  8. ^ "Mount Shavano - East Slopes Route Description". 14ers.com. Retrieved 2024-11-02.

Mount Shavano on 14ers.com

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