Mount Shavano

Mount Shavano
Mount Shavano
	Esprit Point (left) and Mt. Shavano from the southeast
Highest point
Elevation	14,231 ft (4,338 m)
Prominence	1,619 ft (493 m)
Isolation	3.78 mi (6.08 km)
Listing	Colorado Fourteener 17th
Coordinates	38°37′09″N 106°14′22″W / 38.6191541°N 106.2393278°WCoordinates: 38°37′09″N 106°14′22″W / 38.6191541°N 106.2393278°W
Geography
	Mount Shavano Colorado
Location	Chaffee County, Colorado, U.S.
Parent range	Sawatch Range
Topo map	USGS 7.5' topographic map; Maysville, Colorado
Climbing
Easiest route	Hike

Mount Shavano is a high mountain summit in the southern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,231-foot (4,338 m) fourteener is located in San Isabel National Forest, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north by west (bearing 350°) of the community of Maysville in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named in honor of Ute .^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Mountain[]

Mount Shavano lies just east of the Continental Divide and just west of the Arkansas River rising 7,200 feet above the town of Salida in Chaffee County to the southeast. Mount Shavano lies in the south-central part of the Sawatch Range, north of Mount Ouray and and south of the Collegiate Peaks (including Mount Princeton, Mount Harvard, and Mount Yale). Mount Shavano is famous for the Angel of Shavano, a snow formation in the image of an angel that emerges on the east face of the mountain during snow melt each spring.^[5]

A view of the summit of Mount Shavano during the summer hiking season.

Historical names[]

Mount Chavanaux
Mount Shavano – 1981 ^[4]
Mount Usher
Shavano Peak – 1906 ^[4]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "SHAVANO". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved October 21, 2014. Note: The summit of Mount Shavano is +1.22 m (+4.0 ft) higher than NGS station SHAVANO.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b The elevation of Mount Shavano includes an adjustment of +2.032 m (+6.67 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Mount Shavano, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Mount Shavano". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
^ Louis W. Dawson II, Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 1, Blue Clover Press, 1994, ISBN 0-9628867-1-8

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[NGS-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "SHAVANO". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved October 21, 2014. Note: The summit of Mount Shavano is +1.22 m (+4.0 ft) higher than NGS station SHAVANO.

[NAVD88-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b The elevation of Mount Shavano includes an adjustment of +2.032 m (+6.67 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.

[PB-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Mount Shavano, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved October 21, 2014.

[GNIS-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Mount Shavano". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved October 29, 2014.

[angel-5] Louis W. Dawson II, Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 1, Blue Clover Press, 1994, ISBN 0-9628867-1-8

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Mount Shavano

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