Mount Columbia (Colorado)
Template:Short description Template:For Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox mountain Mount Columbia is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The Template:Convert fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, Template:Convert northwest by west (bearing 301°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named by Roger W. Toll in honor of his alma mater, Columbia University,<ref name=NGS/><ref name=NAVD88/><ref name=PB/><ref name=GNIS/> and in commemoration of its rowing victory at the renowned Henley Royal Regatta in 1878.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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Along with nearby Mount Harvard, Mount Yale, Mount Princeton, and Mount 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2021, the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> completed a new trail on Mount Columbia's west slopes, bypassing the old user-created trail through a notoriously eroded scree field.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Clear
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