Rocky Mountains San Juan Mountains Sneffels Range[1]
Topo map
USGS Mount Sneffels
Geology
Type of rock
Extrusive rock, andesitic breccia[4]
Climbing
Easiest route
class 2+ scrambling[2]
Mears Peak is a 13,496-foot-elevation (4,114-meter) mountain summit located on the common boundary of Ouray County with San Miguel County, in Colorado, United States.[3] It is situated six miles northwest of the community of Telluride, in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness, on land managed by Uncompahgre National Forest. It is part of the Sneffels Range which is a subset of the San Juan Mountains, which in turn is part of the Rocky Mountains. Mears Peak is situated west of the Continental Divide, and 3.8 miles west of Mount Sneffels. Topographic relief is significant as the south aspect rises 4,900 feet (1,500 meters) above the San Miguel River in approximately 5.5 miles.
^ ab"Mears Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Volume 17, 1906, page 262.
to commemorate Otto Mears (1840–1931). Prior to 1970, the USGS placed MearsPeak at a location one mile to the east. Otto Mears was known for his road...
Ashley Mears (born 1980), American sociologist Brian Mears (1931–2009), British author and former chairman of Chelsea Football Club Carl Mears, Senior...
uncle in England, although Mears spoke no English. A year later, he was sent to live with a relative in New York City. Mears lived there until he was fifteen...
Early on in life Mears had a severe case of the auto-immune disease alopecia, causing him to lose almost all his body hair. Mears has numerous credits...
1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991). Mears is also a three-time Indycar series/World Series champion (1979, 1981 and 1982). Mears was born in Wichita, Kansas and...
of the twenty highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains, including Mount Elbert, at 14,440 feet (4,401 m) elevation, the highest peak in the Rockies. The range...
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historic toll road over nearby Poncha Pass into the valley. There is a MearsPeak in the Sneffels Range of the San Juans which is also named after him....
and abandoned mines that place the area in historical context. Below the peak, the surrounding hills are high desert, covered in sagebrush. Among the sagebrush...
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east from the Park Range to the north. Rabbit Ears Pass and Rabbit Ears Peak, despite their names, are not in the Rabbit Ears Range, but actually part...
and his brother Major Edward C. Mears was also in the US army. Mears was principal engineer of the Alaska Railroad. Mears took advanced engineering courses...
at Mesa Marin. Mears is the father of NASCAR driver Casey Mears, and the older brother of four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Rick Mears. Since his retirement...
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lighter-colored igneous intrusions are visible on the ridges extending below the peak. The building of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains during the Paleozoic and the...
Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. It is the sixth-highest peak of an island and the second most prominent mountain in Antarctica after Mount...
971 m). Several other peaks in the range are over 9,000 feet (2,743 m), but these elevations stand in contrast to the higher peaks of the Front Range to...
550, and parts of the ridge can be seen from points along the highway. Peaks along the ridge include Courthouse Mountain, elevation 12,172 ft (3,710 m)...
a proven winner to join his young driver Rick Mears. Unser won six times to Mears' three wins but Mears won the championship and Indianapolis 500. In...
with the westernnmost peak being Phoenix Peak (elevation 13,895 feet (4,235 m)) near the Continental Divide and the easternmost peak being Lookout Mountain...
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