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Bear Creek Spire, California

Prominence: 1440 ft, 439 m

Elevation: 13,720+ feet, 4182+ meters

Approx. Isolation: 2.02 mi, 3.25 km

Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 13,720 - 13,760 ft (40-foot closed contour) NAVD88 Elevation: 13,726 ft / 4184 m (Range 13,726 - 13,766 ft)
Subpeaks	Bear Creek Spire-South Peak (13,160 ft/4011 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	37° 22' 5'' N; 118° 46' 3'' W 37.368012, -118.767505 (Dec Deg) 343489E 4137164N Zone 11 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	California
County/Second Level Region	Fresno Inyo
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Bear Creek Spire": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Bear Creek Spire at SummitPost.org Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Bear Creek Spire: United States 13,750-foot Peaks (Unranked) California 13,500-foot Peaks (Rank #28) Sierra Club Sierra Peaks Section (Rank #31) Western States Climbers List (Rank #33) Western States Climbers Star Peaks (Rank #25) Vagmarken Sierra Crest List (Rank #25) Sierra Peaks Section Mountaineers Peaks (Rank #9) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 1994-09-03 by Asher Waxman 2009-09-12 by Richard Northe Saunders 2012-08-01 by Jarod Johnson 2013-08-17 by Chris Terry 2013-08-18 by Chris Terry 2013-08-27 by Gabriel Pramuk 2014-06-21 by Luca Baradel (Unsuccessful) View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members. Nearby Peak Searches: Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Bear Creek Spire Elevation Ladder from Bear Creek Spire Prominence Ladder from Bear Creek Spire

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Bear Creek Spire from Mosquito Flat (2012-09-22). Photo by Craig Barlow.
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Prominence

Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)
  Clean Prominence: 1440 ft/439 m
  Optimistic Prominence: 1520 ft/463 m
  Key Col: Gabbot Pass    12,280 ft/3743 m

Isolation

2.02 mi/3.25 km
Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:
Mount Gabb (WNW)
Isolation distance is based on NHN and is slightly overstated.

Ranges

Continent: North America
Range2: Pacific Ranges
Range3: Sierra Nevada
Range4: Central Sierra Nevada
Range5: Mono Recesses-Humphreys Area

Ridges/Divides

Pacific Crest
Sierra Nevada Crest

Drainage Basins

Owens Valley
Great Basin
Internal Drainage-N.A.
Worldwide Internal Drainage

San Joaquin
San Francisco Bay
Pacific Ocean

Ownership

Land: Inyo National Forest/Sierra National Forest
Wilderness/Special Area: John Muir Wilderness Area

Topo Map

Mount Hilgard O37118c7 1:24,000

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