| Mount Columbia | |
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_-_2004-08-07.jpg) Mount Columbia as seen fromMount Harvard | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 14,077 ft (4,291 m)[1][2] |
| Prominence | 893 ft (272 m)[3] |
| Parent peak | Mount Harvard |
| Isolation | 1.90 mi (3.06 km)[3] |
| Listing | Colorado Fourteener 35th |
| Coordinates | 38°54′14″N106°17′51″W / 38.9039357°N 106.2974989°W /38.9039357; -106.2974989[1] |
| Geography | |
  Mount Columbia | |
| Location | Chaffee County, Colorado,U.S.[4] |
| Parent range | Sawatch Range, Collegiate Peaks[3] |
| Topo map(s) | USGS 7.5' topographic map Mount Columbia, Colorado[1] |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 1916 byRoger Toll[citation needed] |
| Easiest route | West Slopes: Hike,class 2[5] |
Mount Columbia is ahighmountainsummit of theCollegiate Peaks in theSawatch Range of theRocky Mountains ofNorth America. The 14,077-foot (4,291 m)fourteener is located in theCollegiate Peaks Wilderness ofSan Isabel National Forest, 9.9 miles (16.0 km) northwest by west (bearing 301°) of theTown of Buena Vista inChaffee County,Colorado,United States. The mountain was named byRoger W. Toll in honor of his alma mater,Columbia University,[1][2][3][4] and in commemoration of its rowing victory at the renownedHenley Royal Regatta in 1878.[6]
Along with nearbyMount Harvard,Mount Yale,Mount Princeton, andMount Oxford, Mount Columbia is one of five Collegiate Peaks named for prominent universities. The forest service recommends that hikers take the Horn Fork Basin Route, an 11-mile roundtrip that gains 5,800 feet in elevation.[7] In 2021, the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative[8] completed a new trail on Mount Columbia's west slopes, bypassing the old user-created trail through a notoriously eroded scree field.[9]
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