Sherpa Peak, Washington

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 8610 ft / 2624 m
Subpeaks	Sherpa Balanced Rock (8605 ft/2623 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	47° 28' 19'' N, 120° 53' 20'' W 47.471845, -120.888871 (Dec Deg) 659078 E 5259761 N, Zone 10 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Washington
County/Second Level Region	Chelan
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Sherpa Peak":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Sherpa Peak at SummitPost.org      Sherpa Peak at ListsOfJohn.com      Weather for Sherpa Peak at Mountain-Forecast.com Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Sherpa Peak:      Smoot's "Climbing Washington's Mountains" 100 Peaks (Rank #25)      Washington State Top 100 Peaks (Rank #43)      Washington Bulger List (Rank #41)      Wenatchee Mountains "Back Court" Top 100 (Rank #5)      Washington State Top 200 Peaks (Rank #43)      Mid-State Milers (Rank #5) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Climbing Washingtons Mountains (Smoot)        Summit Routes: Washington's 100 Highest Peaks (Stephenson, Bongiovanni)        Cascade Alpine Guide, Vol. 1 (Beckey)        Washington's Highest Mountains: Basic Alpine and Glacier Routes (Goldman)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 173      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 176) Selected Trip Reports:      2008-08-31 by Joshua Ricardi      2009-09-26 by Monty VanderBilt      2011-06-25 by Bri Wilson (Unsuccessful)      2011-08-06 by Milda Tautvydas      2011-09-16 by Andy Dewey      2012-07-24 by Sean Albert      2012-08-31 by Chad Painter (GPS Track)      2014-06-15 by Priti Wright      2015-06-27 by Jaime McCandless (GPS Track)      2015-07-11 by Patty Cokus      2015-08-23 by Matt Lemke      2016-05-25 by Michael Lewis (Unsuccessful)      2016-08-13 by Stephen Sugiyama      2017-06-18 by Stephen Bobick (Unsuccessful)      2017-07-16 by Susan Shih      2017-08-20 by Eric Gilbertson      2017-09-02 by Connor McEntee (Unsuccessful) (GPS Track)      2018-06-23 by Tyler Stockdale      2018-06-23 by Scott Rice (GPS Track)      2018-06-24 by Stephen Bobick      2018-08-10 by Fred Newman      2018-08-31 by Jake Robinson      2019-06-15 by Johnny Petraborg (GPS Track)      2019-07-07 by Lily Qian (Unsuccessful)      2019-07-14 by Krista Morris      2019-09-02 by Marcus Peinado      2019-09-03 by Alden Ryno      2020-06-27 by Eric Wentworth (Unsuccessful)      2020-07-26 by Ryan Stoddard (GPS Track)      2020-09-06 by Eric Wentworth      2021-07-01 by Melanie Stam (GPS Track)      2022-02-05 by Eric Gilbertson
Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Sherpa Peak      Elevation Ladder from Sherpa Peak      Prominence Ladder from Sherpa Peak
The consensus among climbers is that the main Sherpa Peak is slightly higher than the nearby "Balanced Rock".

Sherpa Peak and the amazing nearby balanced rock. Photo by Eric Noel. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 405 ft/124 m   Optimistic Prominence: 445 ft/136 m   Line Parent: Mount Stuart-False Summit   Key Col: 8200 ft/2499 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 0.41 mi/0.65 km    Isolation Limit Point: 47.4725, -120.8975 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Mount Stuart-False Summit  (W)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Cascade Range Range4: South Washington Cascades Range5: Wenatchee Mountains Range6: Stuart Range
Drainage Basins	Wenatchee Columbia Pacific-Western USA Pacific Ocean
Ownership	Land: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Wilderness/Special Area: Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area
Topo Map	Mount Stuart O47120d8 1:24,000
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

Looking east from Sherpa Peak at the famous "Balanced Rock" formation (2012-07-24). Photo by Sean Albert. Click here for larger-size photo.

Jeff Wright summit of Sherpa Balanced Rock (the true summit!) (2019-06-15). Photo by Johnny Petraborg. Click here for larger-size photo.

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