Blanca Peak, Colorado

Elevation: 14,345 feet, 4372 meters

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 14,351 ft / 4374 m
Subpeaks	Blanca Peak-Northeast Slope (14,320 ft/4365 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	37° 34' 39'' N; 105° 29' 8'' W 37.577491, -105.485649 (Dec Deg) 457118E 4159049N Zone 13 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Colorado
County/Second Level Region	Alamosa (Highest Point) Costilla (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Blanca Peak":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      SummitPost.org Page for Blanca Peak      CoHP.org Trip Report for Alamosa, CO by Ken Akerman      CoHP.org Trip Report for Alamosa, CO by Adam Helman      CoHP.org Trip Report for Alamosa, CO by Dave Covill      CoHP.org Trip Report for Alamosa, CO by Kevin Baker      CoHP.org Trip Report for Costilla, CO by David Covill Lists that contain Blanca Peak:      Sacred Navajo Mountains (Rank #1)      Rocky Mountain Range4 High Points (Rank #2)      Colorado Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #3)      USA Lower 48 Range4 High Points (Rank #4)      USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #5)      Colorado 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #5)      Colorado 13,700-foot Peaks (Rank #5)      Colorado 13,500 foot Peaks (Rank #5)      USA Lower 48 Drainage Basin High Points (Rank #5)      U.S. County High Points over 13,000 feet - 48 States (Rank #6)      USA/Canada Range4 High Points (Rank #9)      U.S. County High Points over 13,000 feet (Rank #11)      United States 13,750-foot Peaks (Rank #28)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 100 miles of Isolation (Rank #39)      2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #39)      USA Lower 48 Top 100 Peaks by Prominence (Rank #46)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 4000 feet of Prominence (Rank #46)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 5000 feet of Prominence (Rank #46)      North America 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #49) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Colorado's Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs (Roach)        A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners (Borneman, Lampert)        Hiking Colorado's Summits (Mitchler, Covill) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      1966-07-15 by Larry Versaw      1982 by Jonathan Graber      2001-06-13 by Petter Bjørstad      2003-07-14 by Joe Lavelle      2004-09-02 by Chris Jaquet      2005-09-09 by Mountain Man Henry The (Unsuccessful)      2006-07-22 by Brian Kalet      2006-07-22 by Nathan Duval      2007-08-04 by Cynthia Nemcik (Unsuccessful)      2008-06-19 by Patrick Lilly      2008-10-04 by Matthias Ihl      2010-08-15 by Peter Blaser      2010-09-04 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track)      2012-07-23 by Rob Woodall (GPS Track)      2012-08-24 by Eric Kassan (GPS Track)      2012-08-24 by Hannah Wilner View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members. Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Blanca Peak      Elevation Ladder from Blanca Peak      Prominence Ladder from Blanca Peak

Blanca Peak lords over the open expanses of the San Luis Valley.
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Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Rocky Mountains Range3: Southern Rocky Mountains Range4: Sangre de Cristo Range (Highest Point) Range5: Sierra Blanca (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Rio Grande (HP) Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean Arkansas Mississippi Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: Rio Grande National Forest (Highest Point)
Topo Map	Blanca Peak O37105e4 1:24,000
Prominence	Clean Prominence: 5326 ft/1623 m Optimistic Prominence: 5326 ft/1623 m Line Parent: Mount Harvard Key Col: Poncha Pass 9019 ft/2749 m     Topo Map: Poncha Pass O38106d1 1:24,000     Key Col Lat/Long: 38° 25' 20'' N; 106° 5' 17'' W     Key Col Map Links: Acme Mapper   MyTopo   Gmap4   MS-Research TopoQuest   Bing Maps   MSN/Encarta   Google Maps
Isolation	103.37 mi/166.36 km Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Mount Harvard  (NNW) Isolation Limit Point: 38° 55' 28'' N; 106° 19' 8'' W     ILP Map Links: Acme Mapper   MyTopo   Gmap4   MS-Research TopoQuest   Bing Maps   MSN/Encarta   Google Maps
First Ascent	August 14, 1874 Frank Carpenter Gilbert Thompson
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