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Mount Princeton 
Mt. Princeton, July 2009Elevation 14,204 ft (4,329 m) NAVD 88[1] Prominence 2,157 ft (657 m) [2] Listing Colorado Fourteener Location Colorado
Mount PrincetonLocation Chaffee County, Colorado, USA Range Sawatch Range, Collegiate Peaks Coordinates 38°44′57″N 106°14′33″W / 38.74917°N 106.2425°WCoordinates: 38°44′57″N 106°14′33″W / 38.74917°N 106.2425°W[1] Topo map USGS Mount Antero Climbing Easiest route Hike Mount Princeton is one of the fourteeners of the US state of Colorado. It lies in the Collegiate Peaks, in the central part of the Sawatch Range, just west of the Arkansas River. While not one of the highest peaks of the Sawatch, it is one of the most dramatic, as it rises over 6,500 feet from the Arkansas valley.[3]
Mount Princeton is located within the San Isabel National Forest. The first recorded ascent was on July 17, 1877, at 12:30 pm by William Libbey of Princeton University.[4] It is likely that various miners had climbed the peak earlier.[5] The name Mount Princeton was in use as early as 1873, and the peak was most likely named by Henry Gannett, a Harvard graduate and chief topographer in a government survey led by George M. Wheeler.[5][6]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Princeton". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=JL0886. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
- ^ "Mount Princeton, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=5757. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
- ^ Mount Princeton on Summitpost
- ^ Merritt, J. I. (1997) "The Once and Future Mountain" Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University
- ^ a b "William Libbey and the 1877 Expedition" Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University
- ^ Borneman, Walter R. and Lampert, Lyndon J. (1994) A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners (3rd ed.) Pruett, Boulder, Colorado, ISBN 0-87108-850-9
External links
Categories:- Mountains of Colorado
- Fourteeners of Colorado
- Geography of Chaffee County, Colorado
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