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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 Bear Creek Spire at ListsOfJohn.com Weather for Bear Creek Spire at Mountain-Forecast.com Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Bear Creek Spire: United States 13,750-foot Peaks (Unranked) Western States Climbers List (Rank #33) Sierra Club Sierra Peaks Section (Rank #31) California 13,500-foot Peaks (Rank #28) Vagmarken Sierra Crest List (Rank #25) Western States Climbers Star Peaks (Rank #25) Sierra Peaks Section Mountaineers Peaks (Rank #9) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 0000 by Brian Brown (GPS Track) 1994-06-19 by Greg Gerlach 1994-09-03 by Asher Waxman 2002-08-20 by Bob Burd 2003-08-12 by Bob Burd 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) 2015-09-06 by JT Newgard 2016-08-19 by James Morehouse (GPS Track) View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (74 total) 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

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