July 24, 1916 by Albert Ellingwood and Eleanor Davis
Easiest route
South Face: Climb, class 4[4]
Crestone Needle is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,203-foot (4,329 m) fourteener is located 6.9 miles (11.1 km) east-southeast (bearing 108°) of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States.[2][3][5] The Crestones are a cluster of high summits in the Sangre de Cristo Range, comprising Crestone Peak, Crestone Needle, Kit Carson Peak, Challenger Point, Humboldt Peak, and Columbia Point. They are usually accessed from common trailheads.
^The elevation of Crestone Needle includes an adjustment of +1.763 m (+5.78 ft) from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88.
^ abcde"Crestone Needle, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
^ abcd"Crestone Needle". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
CrestoneNeedle is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,203-foot (4,329 m)...
CrestoneNeedle, another fourteener of the Crestones. The Crestones are a cluster of high summits in the Sangre de Cristo Range, comprising Crestone Peak...
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Blanca Peak from Mount Lindsey. The Crestones as seen from Mount Adams. From left to right: CrestoneNeedle, Crestone Peak, Columbia Point, Kit Carson Peak...
well-known peaks are the fourteeners of the Crestone group: Kit Carson Mountain, Crestone Peak, CrestoneNeedle, and Humboldt Peak. Two sub-peaks of Kit...
"Kit" Carson. The Crestones are a cluster of high summits in the Sangre de Cristo Range, comprising Crestone Peak, CrestoneNeedle, Kit Carson Peak, Challenger...
some combination thereof) is a popular technical climbing route on CrestoneNeedle in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Range. The Ellingwood Ledges Route is...
on the east. The Crestones are a group of four 14,000 feet (4,000 m)+ peaks (fourteeners) in the Sangre de Cristo Range above Crestone, Colorado. The Spanish...
Hand Peak, 0.75 mile (1.2 km) southeast of CrestoneNeedle, is included within the official name "Crestone Peaks". The mountain is located in the Sangre...
high summits in the Sangre de Cristo Range, comprising Crestone Peak, CrestoneNeedle, Kit Carson Peak, Challenger Point, Humboldt Peak, and Columbia Point...
prominence: Torreys Peak, Quandary Peak, Mount Shavano, Mount Belford, CrestoneNeedle, Mount Bross, Kit Carson Mountain, Tabeguache Peak, Mount Oxford, Mount...
East Ridge II 5.5, FA: William Plummer and William Buckingham in 1959 CrestoneNeedle, Ellingwood Ledges III 5.7, FA: Albert Ellingwood led Eleanor Davis...
the 2,000-foot Northeast Buttress (or the Ellingwood Ledges) on the CrestoneNeedle (14,197 feet), in Colorado, USA, at grade 5.7 (5a). 1927 : Laurent...
(1836–1903), American philosopher and theologian. Ellingwood Ledges (CrestoneNeedle), a climbing route in Colorado, U.S. Ellingwood Point, a mountain summit...
wilderness area is home to several fourteeners and quite a few thirteeners. CrestoneNeedle is considered the most difficult. This wilderness is home to black...
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