Mount Thielsen, Oregon

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 9187 ft / 2800 m
Subpeaks	Mount Thielsen-South Peak (8457 ft/2578 m)
Peak Type	Volcano
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	43° 9' 10'' N, 122° 3' 59'' W 43.152769, -122.066502 (Dec Deg) 575899 E 4778203 N, Zone 10 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Oregon
County/Second Level Region	Douglas (Highest Point) Klamath (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Mount Thielsen":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Mount Thielsen at SummitPost.org      Mount Thielsen at ListsOfJohn.com      Weather for Mount Thielsen at Mountain-Forecast.com      Mount Thielsen at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio)      CoHP.org Trip Report for Douglas, OR by Ken Jones      CoHP.org Trip Report for Douglas, OR by Edward Earl      CoHP.org Trip Report for Douglas, OR by Ron Tagliapietra      CoHP.org Trip Report for Douglas, OR by Dean Molen      CoHP.org Trip Report for Douglas, OR by Adam Helman Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Mount Thielsen:      Chemeketan Eighteen Northwest Peaks Award (Rank #12)      Cascade Volcanoes Peak Pin (Rank #14)      USA Lower 48 Drainage Basin High Points (Rank #20)      High Points of Counties Crossed by the Pacific Crest Trail (Rank #27)      Cascade Range 9000-foot Peaks (Rank #24)      Top 10 County High Points Grid for U.S. States (Rank #112)      2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #127)      Top 10 Isolation Grid for U.S. States (Rank #127)      U.S. National Forest High Points (Rank #60)      Counties with Largest Area (Rank #34)      USA Lower 48 Top 400 Peaks by Prominence (Rank #271)      Oregon County High Points (Rank #12)      Oregon County Prominence Peaks (Rank #15)      Western States Climbers Star Peaks (Rank #105)      USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #241)      Western Contiguous USA CoHPs (Rank #201)      Oregon Peaks with 25 Miles of Isolation (Rank #6)      Pacific Coast CoHPs (Rank #13)      Western USA Peaks with 25 miles of Isolation (Rank #83)      Western USA CoHPs (Rank #215) (Peak is on over 20 lists; Not all shown here.) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Climbing the Cascade Volcanoes (Smoot)        Oregon High: A Climbing Guide to Nine Cascade Volcanoes (Thomas)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 396      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 373) Selected Trip Reports:      1979-08-03 by Greg Bramlet      1992-08-19 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track)      1994-06-01 by Micah Stiegler      1998-09-20 by Don Gilman      2003-07-05 by Bob Bolton      2003-08-25 by Patrick Shannon      2006-10-01 by Caleb Morris      2010-09-26 by Caleb Morris      2011-01-15 by Matt Varney (GPS Track)      2011-10-08 by George Burgess (GPS Track)      2012-07-22 by James Barlow (GPS Track)      2013-07-11 by Mark Smith      2013-07-21 by jeff carr      2013-08-30 by Steven Shipman (GPS Track)      2014-07-05 by Richard Hensley      2014-07-21 by Vic Hanson      2014-07-29 by Michael Wanberg      2014-09-21 by Samuel Hahn      2016-07-12 by Dave Covill      2016-07-23 by Ted Glick (GPS Track)      2016-09-08 by David Sanger (GPS Track)      2017-09-30 by Tomoko Nakajima (GPS Track)      2018-06-09 by Ted Ehrlich      2018-08-30 by Lane Johnson      2018-09-22 by Grant Schoepper (GPS Track)      2019-07-20 by Jeremy Fuerst      2019-07-24 by Adam Dunn      2019-09-21 by Joel Panttila      2020-08-01 by Caleb Morris      2020-08-08 by Alan Smith      2021-05-11 by Sara Weimar      2021-05-29 by Mihai Giurgiulescu (GPS Track)      2021-07-02 by Mike Black (GPS Track)      2021-08-22 by Rob W
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Mount Thielsen is one of the "pointiest" mountains in the world, but the firm rock of the summit pinnacle makes it an easy climb (1992-08-19).
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 3342 ft/1019 m   Optimistic Prominence: 3382 ft/1031 m   Line Parent: Mount McLoughlin   Key Col: 5840 ft/1780 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 50.42 mi/81.14 km    Isolation Limit Point: 42.445634, -122.314729 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Mount McLoughlin  (SSW)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Cascade Range Range4: Oregon Cascades Range5: Crater Lake Area (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Klamath Pacific-Western USA Pacific Ocean Umpqua (HP) Pacific-Western USA Pacific Ocean
Ownership	Land: Fremont-Winema National Forest (Highest Point)/Umpqua National Forest (Highest Point) Wilderness/Special Area: Mount Thielsen Wilderness Area (Highest Point)
Topo Map	Mount Thielsen O43122b1 1:24,000
Route #1	Scramble Trailhead: 5250 ft/1600 m Vertical Gain: 3932 ft/1199 m Distance (one way): 4.25 mi/6.84 km
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

Summit of Mt.Thielsen (2014-09-13). Photo by Lia Smaka. Click here for larger-size photo.

Looking at the summit spire from a point just about a quarter-mile east of the PCT junction (2016-07-23). Photo by Ted Glick. Click here for larger-size photo.

Getting close to the summit block (2016-07-23). Photo by Ted Glick. Click here for larger-size photo.

From a small ledge to the east of Chicken Point, looking at the summit block with the north end of Diamond Lake in the distance to the west (2016-07-23). Photo by Ted Glick. Click here for larger-size photo.

My pal Dennis at the base of the summit spire (2016-07-23). Photo by Ted Glick. Click here for larger-size photo.

Looking up at the summit spire from Chicken Point. The red line is roughly the route I use to climb it (2016-07-23). Photo by Ted Glick. Click here for larger-size photo.

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