Blanca Peak, Colorado

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) 457118 E 4159049 N, 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      Blanca Peak at SummitPost.org      Blanca Peak at ListsOfJohn.com      Weather for Blanca Peak at Mountain-Forecast.com      Blanca Peak at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio)      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 Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Blanca Peak:      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 100 miles of Isolation (Rank #39)      5000 foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #4)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 5000 feet of Prominence (Rank #46)      USA Lower 48 Drainage Basin High Points (Rank #6)      USA 48-States 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #7)      5000 foot Prominence CoHPs (Rank #8)      Colorado 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #4)      USA Lower 48 Top 100 Peaks by Prominence (Rank #46)      U.S. County High Points over 13,000 feet - 48 States (Rank #6)      Customary Western USA Fourteeners (Rank #7)      United States Peaks with 100 miles of Isolation (Rank #68)      Sacred Navajo Mountains (Rank #1)      14ers.com Colorado Fourteeners (Rank #4)      Fifty Highest CoHPs in Lower 48 (Rank #5)      U.S. County High Points over 13,000 feet (Rank #11)      5000 foot gain CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #3)      USA Lower 48 Range4 High Points (Rank #4)      United States 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #28)      Fifty Highest CoHPs (Rank #10)      Top 10 Prominence Grid for U.S. States (Rank #60) (Peak is on over 20 lists; Not all shown here.) 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)
Ascent Info Total ascents/attempts logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 418      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 388) Selected Trip Reports:      1998-08-29 by B.J. Marraccini      2003-07-14 by Joe Lavelle      2003-10-14 by Richard Spalinger (Unsuccessful)      2004-09-02 by Chris Jaquet      2005-09-20 by Bob Bolton      2007-08-04 by Cynthia Nemcik (Unsuccessful)      2008-06-19 by Patrick Lilly      2010-08-15 by Peter Blaser      2010-09-04 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track)      2011-08-21 by Donnie Puckle      2011-09-14 by Dwight Wolf (Unsuccessful)      2012-07-23 by Rob Woodall (GPS Track)      2012-08-24 by Hannah Wilner      2012-08-24 by Eric Kassan (GPS Track)      2012-08-24 by BMS 914 (GPS Track)      2012-09-02 by Michele Arnold      2013-07-05 by Alan Bernier      2014-08-08 by William Musser      2015-07-04 by Mihai Giurgiulescu (GPS Track)      2017-06-04 by Connor McEntee (GPS Track)      2017-09-03 by Nicholas Hermann      2017-09-21 by Michael Brown (GPS Track)      2018-07-11 by Hal Watrous      2018-07-24 by Erik Atwell      2018-07-31 by Dennis Stewart      2018-09-08 by Denise Mclellan      2019-06-22 by Bradley R (Unsuccessful) (GPS Track)      2019-07-28 by Jacob Winey (GPS Track)      2020-07-24 by William Averill      2020-08-12 by Ndirish35 Ndirish35      2020-09-22 by Fred Brown      2021-07-21 by Sam Grant (GPS Track)      2021-09-22 by Matthias Stender (GPS Track)      2022-06-29 by Keith Turner
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Blanca Peak lords over the open expanses of the San Luis Valley.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 5326 ft/1623 m   Optimistic Prominence: 5326 ft/1623 m   Line Parent: Mount Harvard   Key Col: Poncha Pass    9019 ft/2749 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 103.37 mi/166.36 km    Isolation Limit Point: 38.924486, -106.318912 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Mount Harvard  (NNW)
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
First Ascent	August 14, 1874     Carpenter, Frank     Thompson, Gilbert
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

Blanca Peak from route on Mount Lindsey (1984-09-12). Photo by John Vitz. Click here for larger-size photo.

Mt Lindsey to the East, taken from Summit of Blanca Peak (1998-08-29). Photo by B.J. Marraccini. Click here for larger-size photo.

Crater Lake and the Holbrook Creek drainage, from the summit of Blanca Peak (1998-08-29). Photo by B.J. Marraccini. Click here for larger-size photo.

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