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Bear Creek Spire, California

Prominence: 1440 ft, 439 m

Elevation: 13,720+ feet, 4182+ meters

True Isolation: 2.02 mi, 3.25 km

Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 13,720 - 13,760 ft (40-foot closed contour) NAVD88 Elevation: 13,726 ft / 4184 m (Range 13,726 - 13,766 ft)
Subpeaks	Bear Creek Spire-South Peak (13,160 ft/4011 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	37° 22' 5'' N, 118° 46' 3'' W 37.368012, -118.767505 (Dec Deg) 343489 E 4137164 N, Zone 11 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	California
County/Second Level Region	Fresno Inyo
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Bear Creek Spire": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Bear Creek Spire at SummitPost.org Bear Creek Spire at ListsOfJohn.com Weather for Bear Creek Spire at Mountain-Forecast.com Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Bear Creek Spire: United States 13,750-foot Peaks (Unranked) Sierra Club Sierra Peaks Section (Rank #31) Western States Climbers List (Rank #33) California 13,500-foot Peaks (Rank #28) Vagmarken Sierra Crest List (Rank #25) Western States Climbers Star Peaks (Rank #25) Sierra Peaks Section Mountaineers Peaks (Rank #9)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 124 Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 117) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 0000 by Brian Brown (GPS Track) 1994-06-19 by Greg Gerlach 2002-08-20 by Bob Burd 2003-08-12 by Bob Burd 2003-09-05 by Milda Tautvydas 2006-06-25 by Romain Wacziarg 2007-10-06 by Tom Becht 2009-09-12 by Richard Northe Saunders 2012-08-01 by Jarod Johnson 2013-06-19 by Romain Wacziarg 2013-08-17 by Chris Terry 2013-08-18 by Chris Terry 2013-08-27 by Gabriel Pramuk 2014-06-21 by Luca Baradel (Unsuccessful) 2015-08-20 by Jesse Rothert 2016-08-19 by James Morehouse (GPS Track) 2016-09-04 by Howard Y 2017-06-29 by James Barlow (GPS Track) 2017-07-23 by Scott Larson 2018-07-07 by Sean Reedy 2018-08-19 by Garrett McLean (GPS Track)
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Bear Creek Spire from Mosquito Flat (2012-09-22). Photo by Craig Barlow.
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Prominence

Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)
  Clean Prominence: 1440 ft/439 m
  Optimistic Prominence: 1520 ft/463 m
  Key Col: Gabbot Pass    12,280 ft/3743 m

Isolation

Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)
   Distance: 2.02 mi/3.25 km
   Isolation Limit Point: 37.3767, -118.8025
Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:
    Mount Gabb  (WNW)

Ranges

Continent: North America
Range2: Pacific Ranges
Range3: Sierra Nevada
Range4: Central Sierra Nevada
Range5: Mono Recesses-Humphreys Area

Ridges/Divides

Pacific Crest
Sierra Nevada Crest

Drainage Basins

Owens Valley
Great Basin
Internal Drainage-N.A.
Worldwide Internal Drainage

San Joaquin
San Francisco Bay
Pacific Ocean

Ownership

Land: Inyo National Forest/Sierra National Forest
Wilderness/Special Area: John Muir Wilderness Area

Topo Map

Mount Hilgard O37118c7 1:24,000

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