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Hike · Mount Sopris trailhead

Mount Sopris

Distance
13.0 mi
Vertical
600 ft
Summit
12,936 ft
Difficulty
Strenuous

Mount Sopris is a twin-summit peak rising 12,965 feet above the lower Roaring Fork Valley in the northwestern Elk Mountains, with east and west summits standing at identical elevation half a mile apart along the high ridge. It anchors the skyline above Carbondale and the…

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About Mount Sopris

Mount Sopris is a twin-summit mountain in the northwestern Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 12,965-foot (3,952 m) mountain is located in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness of White River National Forest, 6.6 miles (10.7 km) north by northeast of the community of Redstone in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.

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The twin summits of Mount Sopris with first autumn snow.
Hogs555 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Evening light on Sopris above the cottonwoods of the Roaring Fork Valley in fall.
Andrew Kearns · CC BY 4.0
The west face cirque of Mount Sopris — site of one of the mountain's slow-moving rock glaciers.
EcoFlight · CC BY 3.0
Mount Sopris under summer sky from below.
Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY-SA 3.0

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