Mount Princeton

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Mount Princeton

Mt. Princeton, May 2006
Elevation 14,197 feet (4,327 m)
Location Colorado, United States
Range Collegiate Peaks, Sawatch Range
Prominence 2,177 ft (664 m)[1]
Coordinates 38°44′58″N, 106°14′33″W[2]
Topo map USGS Mount Antero (CO) Quadrangle
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 perhaps the most dramatic, as it rises more abruptly from the Arkansas valley than the other peaks of the range.[3]

Mount Princeton is located within the San Isabel National Forest. The first recored 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]

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  1. ^ Colorado prominence list
  2. ^ Mount Princeton on Topozone
  3. ^ Mount Princeton on Summitpost
  4. ^ Merritt, J. I. (1997) "The Once and Future Mountain" Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University
  5. ^ a b "William Libbey and the 1877 Expedition" Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University
  6. ^ 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


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