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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Jagged Mountain (Colorado)
Jagged Mountain is a high mountain summit in the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,830-foot (4,215 m) thirteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 12.2 miles (19.7 km) south-southeast (bearing 159°) of the Town of Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, United States.

The first ascent of the peak was made from the south in August 1933 by a party of five members of the San Juan Mountaineers led by Dwight G. Lavender, who described it as “the most difficult peak yet ascended in the Colorado Rockies”. The following year Bill House and Elizabeth Woolsey put up a new route and found a descent down the north side of the peak, their descent route is now the most commonly used route on the peak.

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References

  1. ^ "Jagged Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
  2. ^ The elevation of Jagged Mountain includes an adjustment of +1.787 m (+5.86 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.
  3. ^ "Jagged Mountain, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
  4. ^ "Jagged Mountain, Colorado". Summit Post. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  5. ^ Lavender, Dwight G. (1934). "North America, United States, Colorado, Southwestern Colorado Climbing Notes - 1933, Needle Mountains". American Alpine Journal. #2: 256–7. ISSN 0065-6925. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  6. ^ "1934 Elizabeth Woolsey and William P. House make the second ascent of Jagged Mountain in the San Juan Mountains via a new route" (PDF). Trail and Timberline. No. 1012. Colorado Mountain Club. 2011. p. 20. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
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