East Spanish Peak

East Spanish Peak
Huerfano / Las Animas counties, Colorado, USA
Elevation 12,683 ft (3,866 m) [1]
Prominence 2,363 ft (720 m) [1]
Location
Range Culebra Range, Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Coordinates [2]
Topo map USGS Spanish Peaks
Climbing
Easiest route West Ridge: hike/scramble class 2

East Spanish Peak is a high mountain peak in the US state of Colorado. It is the lower of the two Spanish Peaks, two large igneous stocks which form an eastern outlier of the Culebra Range, a subrange of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

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Geology

While the Spanish Peaks have the appearance of volcanic cones, they are actually stocks, remnants of an igneous batholith which formed underground around 25 million years ago. They are surrounded by radiating dikes, up to 14 miles (23 km) long, made of the same material.[3]

Hiking/climbing

The standard ascent route for East Spanish Peak ascends the west ridge of the peak from the saddle between it and West Spanish Peak. A trail ascends to the saddle from the north side of the peaks.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "East Spanish Peak, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=16610. Retrieved 2009-01-22. 
  2. ^ "East Spanish Peak". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:194412. Retrieved 2009-01-22. 
  3. ^ "The Spanish Peaks". Sangres.com. http://sangres.com/mountains/spanpks/index.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-15. 
  4. ^ "East Spanish Peak". SummitPost.org. http://www.summitpost.org/page/154487. Retrieved 2011-05-15.