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Hike · Quandary TH

Quandary Peak — East Ridge

Distance
6.7 mi
Vertical
3,402 ft
Summit
14,265 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

Quandary Peak is the highest summit of the Tenmile Range at 14,271 feet, set inside the White River National Forest about 6 miles south-southwest of Breckenridge in Summit County. As of 2018 it was the most-climbed fourteener in Colorado, owed largely to a forgiving standard…

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Vertical of Quandary Peak in early summer, first sun catching the broad east ridge that carries the route up from the trailhead at lower right.
Jeffrey Beall · Public domain
Summit-day view west from the top of Quandary, the upper ridge dropping back toward the false summit and the Tenmile Range fading into the distance.
Anthony Quintano · CC BY-SA 2.0
Wind-piled rock windbreaks at the summit cap on a heavily rimed winter day, the Mosquito Range across the Blue River drainage to the south.
Greg Willis · CC BY 2.0
A member of the resident Quandary mountain-goat herd grazing the alpine tundra of the east ridge above 13,000 feet.
Greg Willis · CC BY 2.0

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