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Mount Yale

Distance
9.5 mi
Vertical
4,301 ft
Summit
14,167 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

Mount Yale is a 14,200-foot summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range, set inside the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 9.4 miles west by north of Buena Vista. The peak was named in 1869 by a Harvard research team led by Josiah Whitney — the…

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About Mount Yale

Mount Yale is a high and prominent mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,197-foot (4327.24 m) fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 9.4 miles (15.2 km) west by north of Buena Vista, Colorado. The mountain was named in honor of Elihu Yale, the primary benefactor of what is now Yale University.

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Snow-capped Mount Yale rises above the Arkansas River valley — a 14,200-foot summit of the Collegiate Peaks named for Elihu Yale.
Hogs555 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Looking up to the broad summit ridge from Horn Fork Basin, a quiet alpine cirque north of the standard route.
KnowledgeIsPower9281 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The peak under summer storm clouds, viewed from the Arkansas River valley to the southeast.
ATrow at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spring snow on the upper slopes seen from U.S. 285 near Nathrop.
David Herrera from Albuquerque, NM, Bernalillo · CC BY 2.0

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