Alta Mountain, Washington

Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 6240 - 6280 ft     (40-foot closed contour) NAVD88 Elevation: 6244 ft / 1903 m     (Range 6244 - 6284 ft)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	47° 26' 28'' N, 121° 19' 55'' W 47.441131, -121.331964 (Dec Deg) 625764 E 5255536 N, Zone 10 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Washington
County/Second Level Region	Kittitas
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Alta Mountain":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Alta Mountain at SummitPost.org      Alta Mountain at ListsOfJohn.com Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Alta Mountain:      Alpine Lakes "Home Court" Top 100 (Rank #33)      Mountaineers Snoqualmie Peak Pin-All (Rank #7)      Smoot's "Climbing Washington's Mountains" 100 Peaks (Rank #83)      Mountaineers Snoqualmie Peak Pin-Second Ten (Rank #4) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Climbing Washingtons Mountains (Smoot)        Cascade Alpine Guide, Vol. 1 (Beckey) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      2005-09-11 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track)      2008-08-02 by josh Welbaum      2008-10-19 by Matt B      2009-08-02 by Greg Chappell      2010-07-25 by Wouter van Wageningen      2011-06-21 by Susan Shih (Unsuccessful)      2011-08-18 by Tim Hagan (GPS Track)      2012-07-07 by Josh Phanco      2012-09-22 by Chad Straub      2013-07-21 by Patty Cokus      2013-07-21 by Sean Albert      2013-07-31 by Sarah Holt      2014-10-19 by Cindy Lin (Unsuccessful)      2015-09-11 by Mark Hadland (GPS Track)      2015-10-24 by Dan Conley (GPS Track)      2015-10-24 by James Barlow (GPS Track)      2016-07-24 by Jeremy Benezra      2017-09-17 by Sergey Lazutin (GPS Track)      2017-11-05 by Nick R (Unsuccessful)      2018-06-23 by Joanne Najdzin (GPS Track)      2018-07-14 by Ananth Maniam (GPS Track)      2018-07-31 by Joel Panttila      2018-10-13 by Lawrence Kuracina      2018-10-13 by Karen Altergott (GPS Track)      2018-10-14 by Mark Hadland (GPS Track)      2018-10-20 by Nancy Lloyd View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (292 total) Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Alta Mountain      Elevation Ladder from Alta Mountain      Prominence Ladder from Alta Mountain

Alta Mtn, with one of the Rampart Lakes in the foreground (2015-10-04). Photo by Jeff Guderian. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 520 ft/159 m   Optimistic Prominence: 600 ft/183 m   Key Col: 5720 ft/1743 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 1.14 mi/1.83 km    Isolation Limit Point: 47.4375, -121.3083 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Box Ridge-Northwest Peak  (ESE)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Cascade Range Range4: South Washington Cascades Range5: Alpine Lakes Area Range6: Chikamin-Keechelus
Drainage Basins	Yakima Columbia Pacific Ocean
Ownership	Land: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Wilderness/Special Area: Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area
Topo Map	Chikamin Peak O47121d3 1:24,000
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

Looking to the false summit (2017-09-04). Photo by Diana Yuen. Click here for larger-size photo.

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