Hike · Guanella Pass

Mt Bierstadt — West Slopes

Distance

5.5 mi

Vertical

2,799 ft

Summit

14,065 ft

Difficulty

Strenuous

Mount Bierstadt rises to 14,065 feet in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, set in the Mount Evans Wilderness of the Pike National Forest about ten miles south of Georgetown. The mountain is named for Albert Bierstadt, the German-American landscape painter who made the first…

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Mount Bierstadt's west slope — the standard route — rises from the willows of Guanella Pass on a clear July morning. — Thomson200 · CC0

Looking from the summit ridge of Mount Blue Sky toward Mount Bierstadt, Abyss Lake holding the bottom of the Sawtooth cirque. — Clyde Charles Brown · CC BY-SA 4.0

The Sawtooth ridge climbs from Mount Bierstadt's south shoulder under summer cumulus. — Thomson M · CC BY 3.0

Mount Bierstadt and the connecting Sawtooth ridge above the marshlands of Scott Gomer Creek, the standard view from the lower west-slopes trail. — Adam Ginsburg · CC BY 2.5

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